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> The vendor that I am submitting these XML files to requires entities > because there are math equations and similar items that can't be > represented using ASCII. In the layout application, we use a special > font to generate these items. So whenever they are used within the > content of the file, we need to change them to the appropriate > entity. That being said, is there a better way other than manually > going through my XML file and changing those characters to their > correct entity code? Nothing there suggests the need for entities in the XSLT output. If you have an entity reference & f o o b a r ; in the file and that entity is defined by a DTD to be __something__ then when your vendor processes the XMl file, the XML parser will (or should) report the same thing whether the file has & f o o b a r ; or __something__ in it. An entity reference is indistinguishable from the direct use of the entity which it references. If the vendor tools require an ASCII encoded file taht's a different matter and can be addressed by <xsl:output encoding="US-ASCII"/> David
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