I should have known to just check it in Firefox to start with. :-)
Okay, I think the problem has been solved with:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
Running tests now.

Thanks again for all of the help.

Hi Michael,

Is it possible to translate vice versa. All I mean is that I want to translate all my ® into its corresponding unicode values i.e., ®. I still have to try this but I am little bit ambiguous whether XSLT processor will able to read the literal symbol ®.

Moreover, I want replace all these symbols (which happens to appearing after I render them to a Pagination platform) into their corresponding unicode values irrespective of their appearance in XML.

Thanks.
Pankaj