XML Entities

[Cougar0119]

I have an XML document that references an external dtd. In the dtd I have a list of entities, for some foreign characters. One such entity is <!ENTITY aacute "&#.225;"> (the "." is intentionally put in there otherwise when I post, the á would appear rather than the code) - it works fine except I there is one problem.

I also have an xsl stylesheet that I use to transform the xml document into an html document... the example code I might use to transform the document:

Dim xmlDoc As DOMDocument, xslDoc as DOMDocument

xmlDoc.async=false
xslDoc.async=false

xmlDoc.load app.path & "\doc.xml"
xslDoc.load app.path & "\doc.xsl"

Text1.Text = xmlDoc.transformNode(xslDoc)

Everything transforms properly, and then I display the output html document in the webbrowser. Everything displays correctly except the "á" which shows up as a little box - to make an already long story a bit shorter, the transformNode creates a META tag in the html document setting the charset=UTF-16. The letter "á" is not in that charset, but the transform node resolves the &#.225; entity to the "á" rather than just passing the &#.225; to the html document.

I found that I could remedy the problem by parsing the file and removing the charset declaration, but I would rather transform the document putting &#.225; in the html document rather than the actual letter "á" so that the UTF-16 charset can remain in place.

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!