>But the simple way to solve the problem (assuming that it's a real problem
>and not imagined) is to preprocess the source XML to replace the ampersands
>with something else, and then postprocess the output to put them back
again.

Thanks Mike - this is actually what I've been doing - I translate from '&'
to '$!$' - I was just wondering whether theres an alternative-
Matt
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