Jean-François Michaud wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was wondering if anybody could point me in the right direction
> regarding this.
> 
> I have unicode entities in an XML in hexadecimal format and I need to
> be able to convert to ISO entities. Are there facilities available to
> do this easily or do I have to parse all text and convert everything
> manually? If thats what I have to do, is there any code already
> available that would orient me in the right direction?
> 
> This is my XML snippet.
> 
> XML:
> 
> <?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?>
> <root>
>   <para>&#x212B; &#x00C5; &#x00E5; &#x00C3; &#x03B2; &#x03B5; &#x03F0;
> &#x03BB; &#x03BC;</para>
> </root>
> 
> I basically need to something like this:
> 
> SGML:
> 
> <root>
>   <para>&angst; &Aring; &aring; &Atilde; &b.beta; &b.epsi; &b.kappav;
> &b.lambda; &b.mu;</para>
> </root>
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Regards
> Jeff
> 


one way is to use xslt2 character maps, if I save your file as ent.xml, 
saxon8 gives the following output if run with the stylesheet at the end
it's not quite the result you asked for but I think the bold greek 
should map to the characters in plane1 so the grk3 entity names are used 
rather than grk4. (It would be easy for you to take a local copy and 
change that though)

David

$ saxon8 ent.xml ent.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><root>
   <para>&angst; &Aring; &aring; &Atilde; &beta; &epsiv; &kappav;
&lambda; &mu;</para>
</root>



<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
		xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

  <xsl:import 
href="http://www.w3.org/2003/entities/iso9573-2003/iso9573-2003map.xsl"/>
<xsl:output use-character-maps="iso9573-2003"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
   <xsl:copy-of select="/"/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>