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Subject: Re: [xsl] Passing through character entities intact
From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 09:33:24 +0100

> This is impossible to achieve - mdash is not supported by ISO 8859-1.
> Output as UTF-8 - most web browsers support that now.

No. In XML numeric character references (and entity references defined in
terms of these) may denote _any_ unicode character, by unicode number,
irrespective of the encoding used for characters in the document.
So even if you have a latin1 (or us-ascii) encoded file you can still
refer to &mdash; as being the appropriate character.

David

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