Native char, not entity representation?

[Jay Burgess <jb...@digarch.com>]

When running my document through Xalan, and using output method HTML, I 
need characters in the range 128-255 to be written out in their native 
form, as opposed to their entity representation e.g. "£" instead of 
"£".   Saxon has an xsl:output attribute called 
"saxon:character-representation" that allows just this behavior.  Is there 
a way to accomplish the same task with Xalan?

For reference, here's what the Saxon doc says about 
"saxon:character-representation":

Gives the preferred representation for special characters.  For 
method="html" two values may be given, separated by a semicolon. The first 
gives the representation for non-ASCII characters that are present in the 
target character set: the values are "native", "entity", "decimal", or 
"hex".  The second gives the representation for characters outside the 
selected encoding: the same values can be used, except  for "native". For 
example if encoding="iso-8859-1", then 
saxon:character-representation="native;hex" causes characters in the range 
0-255 to be written as themselves (except less-than,  ampersand, etc which 
are always written as entity references, as is non-breaking-space), and 
causes characters outside this range to be written as hexadecimal character 
references. By contrast "entity;decimal" causes characters in the range 
160-255 to be written using HTML-defined symbolic entities, and characters 
above 255 to be  written in decimal. The default is "entity;decimal".

Thanks.

Jay