✓ not output correctly from DOM parser

Question

Need a small help again.
in my original XMl file, I have an entity ʟ
It represents(ALT 671) a check symbol(a box).
But the output XMl file from my DOMparser represents it as a question mark, which is NOT what I want.
I'm using DOM parser with JAXP API to parse the XML file.
Could you help me why does my parser doesn't output correct character for this particular entity only?
Any suggestion is grately appreciated.
-Srivalli.

Answer 1

Thanks DrClap for your reply.
Here is the statement in my DTD...
<!ENTITY check     "&#10003;">
(I had 671 in the place of 10003, but neither worked!!!!)
This is a statement in input XML...
The foll &check; owing is
This is my Output XML....
The foll ? owing is
Here is the code in my java file where I didnot explicitly specify any output encoding type....
DocumentBuilderFactory factory=DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
factory.setValidating(true);
factory.setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace(true);
DocumentBuilder builder=factory.newDocumentBuilder();
currDocument=builder.parse(f);
TransformerFactory tf=TransformerFactory.newInstance();
Transformer t = tf.newTransformer(new StreamSource("transformoutput.xsl"));
t.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.DOCTYPE_SYSTEM, "nmstat.dtd");
FileWriter fileOut = new FileWriter("outputAnno.xml");
t.transform(new DOMSource(document), new StreamResult(fileOut));
This is the code in transformoutput.xsl...
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:copy-of select="node()"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Could you help me figuring out the problem.
Thank you very much.
-Srivalli.