Re: preserving ' and "

> how can i preserve the ' and " entities?

You can't, the xslt processor has no knowledge that they were used.


> even when the other ones are not resolved (i.e. when i set the XML
> output encoding to "us-ascii").

All the entities are resolved before the XSLT processor sees them. If
you set US-ASCII on output then characters not in ascii will be encoded
by numeric references (or entity references in html mode) but the output
form will be the same however th echaracter was input (as a reference or
as character data)


> my use case is i may need to wrap the entire XML by quotes or
> apostrophes as a string, so any 'inner' quotes and apostrophes need to
> be encoded/escaped.

In that case you'll also need to quote " used around attribute values,
so you can't really do this as XML, just pass teh result document
through
sed -i -e "s/'/"/g"

David



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