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> I am involve in a xml to html to xml conversion by xslt and > entities conversion is a problematic issue. Below are the > steps for conversion. > XML INPUT Entities: “ (left double quote), Let's start by getting the terminology right. “ is not an entity; it is a character reference. > HTML OUTPUT Entities: C"b,E (left double > quote), C"b,B (right double quote), Almost certainly the XSLT processor produced correct output in UTF-8, but you are viewing it using some kind of software that doesn't know it is reading UTF-8, and is presenting it wrongly, thinking it to be iso-8859-1. > I want the entities should be same as input xml ie. “ > for left double quote. > You can't guarantee the same representation as in the input (the XSLT processor can't distinguish, for example, between a decimal and a hexadecimal character reference for the same character). But you can force the XSLT processor (or rather, its serializer) to output the character as a character reference by selecting an encoding that does not include the character, for example <xsl:output encoding="iso-8859-1"/> Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
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