At Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:30:37 -0400, Jackie Shieh <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Yes, it was declared. Perhaps what was declared in the file > did not meet the standard wording?! […] If you wish the output to be entity encoded (rather than output ‘raw’ UTF-8) you must declare <xsl:output encoding="ascii"/> Perhaps there is another way but I am not aware of it. That said, there is really no reason to force your data to be entity-encoded, unless you are going to be sending it around in email which seems always to munge the character set. best, Erik Hetzner -- Erik Hetzner California Digital Library 510-987-0884