[xsl] XSL > XSL trans. and Characher Encoding

["L Rutker" <lrutker@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
I am doing an XSL to XSL transform.
In the first xsl I have &#160 in a few places that I expect to be output as 
a nbsp in the final transform to HTML.
While the &#160 seems to be encoded as a nbsp in the first transform it 
converts to an  (an a with a hat in case this char doesn?t make it through 
the email system intact).
I am using Xalan on NT for the transforms. Below is some of my code (I hope 
no errors were created by ?cut and paste? but the code works).
I initially did not use any encoding but used a PrintWriter to do the 
output. That led to an ?illegal character? error. The UTF-8 encoding I use 
below prevented the error but led to the funny  character.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks


// code in main() for the first and second transform

FileOutputStream fos=
               new FileOutputStream(new File ("C:\\test_out.xsl"));
OutputStreamWriter osw = new OutputStreamWriter(fos, "UTF-8");
osw.write(transformBean.transform("C:\\test1.xml", "C:\\test1.xsl"));
osw.close();

FileOutputStream fos=
         new FileOutputStream(new File ("C:\\test_out_2.html") );
OutputStreamWriter osw = new OutputStreamWriter(fos, "UTF-8");
osw.write(transformBean.transform("C:\\test2.xml", "C:\\test_out.xsl"));
osw.close();

public String transform(String xmlPath, String xslPath)
                       throws IOException, 
TransformerConfigurationException, TransformerException  {

       FileInputStream xmlFis = new FileInputStream(xmlPath);
       Reader xmlIn = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(xmlFis, 
"UTF-8"));
       StreamSource xmlSource= new StreamSource(xmlIn);

       FileInputStream xslFis = new FileInputStream(xslPath);
       Reader xslIn = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(xslFis, 
"UTF-8"));
       StreamSource xslSource= new StreamSource(xslIn);

       return realTransformer(xmlSource, xslSource);
   }


private String realTransformer(StreamSource xmlSource, StreamSource 
xslSource)
                           throws IOException, 
TransformerConfigurationException, TransformerException{

       TransformerFactory transformerFactory = 
TransformerFactory.newInstance();
       Transformer transformer = 
transformerFactory.newTransformer(xslSource);

       StringWriter sw=new StringWriter();
       transformer.transform(xmlSource, new StreamResult(sw));
       sw.flush();
       sw.close();
       return sw.toString();
   }


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