> we're working with saxon 8.7.3J on windows xp on xslt 2.0. it 
> seems the entity reference
> 
>    →  (normal right arrow)
> 
> produces in the output
> 
>    ↑︀︀︀

Entity references in XML mean whatever you want them to mean. What does the
entity declaration in the DTD have to say?

I'm surprised by this output though: the Saxon serializer never includes
leading zeros in hex character references, though they are perfectly legal.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/