The most simple ad hoc way is to change the input xml doc and create a
special DTD
<!ENTITY ldquo "&amp;ldquo;">
<!ENTITY rdquo "&amp;rdquo;">
<!ENTITY ndash "&amp;ndash;">
<!ENTITY mdash "&amp;mdash;">

Hi!
In my output file entities are getting converted into as per the encoding
specified in the <output> element but I don't want to change the enties. Is
there any encoding value, which will convert it into as desired output.

INPUT
“ ” – —

OUTPUT  (encoding="iso-8859-1")
“ ” – —

OUTPUT  (encoding="iso-8859-1")
" "  

DESIRED OUTPUT
“ ” – —

thanks
JSR