> Yes, I guess 'character references' is what I meant.  But, 
> I'm not sure what you mean when you say 'no sequence of pure 
> XSLT transformations can lead to this result'.
> 
> Do you mean that what I'm trying to do is not supported?  Or 
> that the escaped ampersands in the output text should not be 
> occurring?

I'm saying that there is no way of producing the double-escaped
ampersands (such as é) without trying very hard. You're doing
something that you aren't telling us about.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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