Hi Joe, Christine is right for the serializer that is packaged with Xalan, but are you using the Xerces serializer?
Your note had this code: << OutputFormat format = new OutputFormat ("xml", encoding, indentResult); format.setOmitXMLDeclaration (true); serializer = new XMLSerializer (outputStream, format); >> but both OutputFormat and XMLSerializer are classes defined in xercesImpl.jar. To use the Xalan serializer look at the example on http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/apidocs/org/apache/xml/serializer/Serializer.html. The example on that javadoc page shows you how to create and use a serializer from Xalan. If you are using this serializer then Christine's comments on XMLEntities.properties apply, otherwise you have to pass the question to the Xerces mailing list ( j-dev@xerces.apache.org ). - Brian - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Brian Minchau, Ph.D. XSLT Development, IBM Toronto (780) 431-2633 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Forwarded by Brian Minchau/Toronto/IBM on 08/29/2006 10:54 AM ----- Christine Li/Toronto/[EMAIL PROTECTED] MCA To Nirmal JS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/29/2006 10:07 cc AM xalan-j-users@xml.apache.org Subject Re: Apostrophe problem with xalan 2.7.0 Hi, Nirmal For XML output, only <, &, ", > will be escaped. If you want to escape ? ? ?, you can create your own org.apache.xml.serializer.XMLEntities.properties file to replace the default one. Christine Li XSLT Development IBM Toronto Lab Tel: (905)413-2601 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nirmal JS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: news <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To 29/08/2006 03:50 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] e.org cc Subject Apostrophe problem with xalan 2.7.0 Hi everyone, While using xalan 2.1.0 and xerces 1.4.3 jars, the out file will have the ?'? in place of ? ? ? Literal in input file. When we use the latest version of xalan 2.7.0 and xerces 2.8.0, it will result the same ? ? ? literal in out file, The classes and methods that we suspected regarding this conversion are OutputFormat format = new OutputFormat ("xml", encoding, indentResult); format.setOmitXMLDeclaration (true); serializer = new XMLSerializer (outputStream, format); We need ?'? in output file, can anyone help me in this regard. Thanks and Regards Nirmal JS [EMAIL PROTECTED]