hi! thanks for the many suggestions.
i tried the following solution: * *4. Use a proper encoding declaration which matches the actual * encoding of the file. For example, most platforms setup for * a german language environment use ISO-8859-1, and usually * editors use this as the default encoding. Placing * <?xml version="1.0" encodign="ISO-8859-1"?> * at the beginning of each XML file (XSLT is XML too) allows you * to use native encoded umlauts. this works great producing pdf. but i still have a problem: as soon as i try to get an output as txt-file (e.g. on a web-browser or saving the content in a file) the german umlaut produced by the ue/oe keys are produced wrong (e.g. ue as A1/4). but all encodings in the xml/xsl file are correct. even the settings of the webbrowser are correct. the aim is to produce a proper text-output for latex. is the text-ouput of cocoon broken? bye wolfgang weigel --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faq/index.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>