Paul,

 What would I do without you? :-) Now I have a question on this, and
perhaps I have misunderstood the CDATA section (2.4 of XML rec).

 2.4 of the XML rec states...

 ---
 The ampersand character (&) and the left angle bracket (<) may appear 
in their literal form only when used
 as markup delimiters, or within a comment, a processing instruction,
or  a CDATA section.

 ----

since the & can appear in the literal form, shouldn't it remain in the
literal form when it is written back out from the result tree? I can
understand replacing the standard entities, but an entity not declared
should be left alone if it appears in a CDATA section, right? 

IBM's XML for Java (1.1.4) has this behavior this even when I have the
expand entity references flag set to true. 

Thanks,

--Keith


certainly

Paul Prescod wrote:
> 
> Keith Visco wrote:
> >
> > If you don't want the XSL processor to expand an entity reference,
> > or you don't want to look up "magic numbers" there is an alternative.
> 
> This is not an alternative. The output of this:
> 
> > <![CDATA[&nbsp;]]>
> 
> will be:
> 
> &amp;nbsp;
> 
> That's why this thread arises so often and is always so long.
> 
>  Paul Prescod  - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself
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> 
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