output xhtml with html style entities

what would be the best way to output xhtml with xhtml/html entity
references? if you use xml output, what you need for generating xhtml,
the output is serialized into the defined character set, what is indeed
what i expect. 

when you use html as output method the entities are per definition in
the generated document, but the xhtml code is "reduced" to html. what i
mean is that the output is not well formed xml as intended.

so what would be the best way, or am i missing something?

even though saxon supports xhtml as output method its not generating the
desired output. actually i am not looking for a saxon "only" solution,
although i prefer saxon.

thank you once again,
thomas


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