Dear Michael,

Thanks for your excellent support.

Here is my explaination:

We are runnning a replacing program on XML were it requires 5 digit of Hexadecimal NCRs.,

Now we updated our program accordingly (i.e.) to read "&x3b1;" etc. based on saxon output.

Thanks,
RICHBIRD.

Dear Michael,

I got new problem in the same subject..

Let us consider.

[u]No. Input Saxon Output Name Type Comment</u>

1. #256; #x100; A Macron LatinExtended-A Correct
2. À À A Grave Latin-1 Expected [u]#xC0;</u> in Saxon Output

The output for "1. Amacron result correct, were as for "2. Agrave" it result original input value (i.e.) there is no conversion taken place.

Any help would greatful.

Thanks,
RICHBIRD.

Character references are only used for characters that aren't present in the output encoding. If you want character references used for all non-ASCII characters, specify <xsl:output encoding="us-ascii"/>. Note that this means you cannot use any non-ASCII characters in element names, comments, etc.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference