> please comment..
well main comment is that while cutting down examples for posting is
good, it's best not to cut so much that the problem is no longer clear:-)

As we've said before you can't do that in XSL, although you can get the
XMl parser to do it for you using entity refs which are essentially a
macro expanding pre-pass over the stylesheet.

Jeni showed the syntax in the message you quoted.

David

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