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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