John E. Simpson 

>Dave Pawson's original request (and Bob DuCharme's followup), as I 
>understood it, was not about getting at the entity reference 
>in the source 
>tree -- rather about creating an entity declaration in the 
>result. That, 
>too, is another kettle of fish. It's not too hard to imagine an XSLT 
>element like:
>      <xsl:entity name="x"
>           replacement-text="whatever, including *escaped* ent refs"
>           system-id="uri" public-id="publicID"/>
>Maybe as a child of the (otherwise typically empty) xsl:output 
>element....

Thanks John, that does bring it back to my needs.
The 'how' it happens I don't care and trust the 
editors / WG to do 'right'.
I simply want it to be available.

Regards, DaveP


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