> Does anyone know of a tool that parses an XML document and 
   > outputs it as ASCII replacing characters with named entities 
   > instead of numeric entites? Named entites you'd probably have 
   > to supply yourself?

   You can do that in XSLT 2.0 with an identity transformation, serializing the
   result using character maps.

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




If you are using the usual ISO/HTML/MathML entity sets you can 


<xsl:import
href="http://www.w3.org/2003/entities/2007/entitynamesmap.xsl"/>

which defines an "w3c-entity-names" map that you can then refer to in
xsl:output

David

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