title: dp:serialize and escaping on ibm datapower
body: <p>I have a project where I need to binary-64-encode an xml-file and put it into another xml. To get this to work I first serialize the xml with <code>dp:serialize</code> and then use <code>dp:binary-encode</code> on the resultning variable from that. This works fine except for that all scandinavian characters are escaped. <code>åäö</code> gets to be <code>&amp;#229;&amp;#228;&amp;#246;</code> when I decode the result. </p>
  
  <p>Any ideas? I've tried with <code>dp:escaping="minimum"</code> on the output-tag (Does the <code>xsl:output</code> tag affect <code>dp:serialize</code>?)  and a number of other options. Through printing the serialized result before binary-64-encoding it I've seen that the escaping is added when <code>dp:serialize</code> is invoked.</p>
  
  <p>Is it possible to serialize without escaping on datapower? </p>