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Angus,
At 03:59 PM 10/10/01, you wrote: How do you take a character entity in an input document and pass it through to the output document as an entity(i.e. without any change)? Yes, this is normal. In general, the processing model for XSLT -- which entails a complete parse, including entity resolution, before the processor (logically speaking) "sees" the document -- makes it impossible to do what you want. Once the document is parsed, the stylesheet processor can't know what was once an entity, and what not. Accordingly, the usual fix is to pre-process the entities into something that won't be parsed (some pseudo-entity format such as "%#%mdash;" for —), and then post-process to reverse this. But recently, Zarella Rendon posted a nice alternative workaround to the problem, particularly good if you've got lots of data. See http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200110/msg00115.html. Cheers, Wendell
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