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[Ivanova]

Hi. I want to transform XML to HTML using Xalan-C++ 1.10.
And I have such xml (fragment):
<a ... alt="текст"> текст </a>

And after XSL transformation, attribute values (written in russian 
language) become coded into HTML escape sequence:

<a ... alt="&#1040;&#1074;&#1090;&#1086"> текст </a>

But text, inside attribute <a> stayed unchanged (and that's right).
How could I avoid converting values of attributes in tags ?

And one more question: how to perform xalan-c do not insert META tag
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
in  created html document.

Thanks for the answers.