> But is it possible to get an XML parser to refrain from resolving entities,

I use 


sed -e="s/&/[[AMP]]/g" .. XSLT transform ... sed -e="s/[[AMP]]/&/g" 

> Bye the way, I'm asking because I'm thinking about using XSLT for
> intermediate processing of our documentation, which is in an XML format 

same here

David

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