Character entities in HTML output

[Robert Lubczynski <ro...@chorwacja.com>]

Hi All,

I'm wonderring why Xalan outputs in HTML several characters as named 
character entities even when encoding is set to UTF-8. In UTF-8 every 
character can be represented as raw data, so there should not be any 
character entities (numeric or named). Yet some characters are outputed by 
Xalan only as named character entities.

Is there a way to disable in Xalan generation of this character entities? Is 
it possible to produce UTF-8 encoded HTML without any character entities?

Thanks
Robert 

Re: Character entities in HTML output

[Joseph Kesselman <ke...@us.ibm.com>]

Working as specified. See 
file:///d%7C/user/w3c/tr/xslt.html#section-HTML-Output-Method: "       The 
html output method should escape non-ASCII characters in URI attribute 
values using  the method recommended in Section B.2.1 of the HTML 4.0 
Recommendation."

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Joe Kesselman  / IBM Research