You are right.  This worked.  I was thinking that somehow because it was a part of the href, that it needed to be & instead of & to show up correctly.  
Thanks again for the help!

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From: Peter Davis [mailto:pdavis152@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 3:17 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  href with & ?


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On Tuesday 17 September 2002 12:58, Holmberg Rick-ra0119 wrote:
> It works until I put the & in before the value statement.  Is there a way
> to do this?  I havent' seen this issue in the archives.

Yes you have, believe me :).  This is a FAQ.  In XML, "&" is a reserved 
character, used to begin a character or entity reference.  So, to output a 
real "&", you have to escape it with the character reference for that 
character: use "&".

I suggest that in addition to reading the XSLT specification, you also go read 
the XML specification at <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml>.  Who knows what new 
tricks or insight you can learn.  The specification will also tell you about 
needing to use "&lt;" instead of "<" in text or attribute values.

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Peter Davis
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