Ok, 

So are you saying that this can't be change in the XSL as whatever
characters I use it will not make any difference to the output,
and this is therefore a problem (Supposedly further down the line)in the
XML parser?
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Alex.

On Thu, 27 May 2004 10:05:51 +0100, "Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx> said:
> > 
> > <![CDATA[&&]]>
> > Will out put as an entity:
> > &amp;&amp;
> > 
> > 
> > Does this look like a problem in the output type, or is there 
> > a way I can
> > alter the XSLT so that I can get 
> > the HTML returned as the same stuff I put in i.e. 
> > && or <
> 
> This is a FAQ. 
> 
> An XSLT transformation parses your source XML, creates a tree
> representation
> of the source, transforms it, and then serializes the result tree.
> Lexical
> details of the source XML, for example whether attributes use single
> quotes
> or double quotes, are lost in this process. The difference between
> <![CDATA[&&]]> and &amp;&amp; is one of these lexical details.
> 
> You would want the test "contains(., '&amp;')" to work regardless how the
> ampersand was written in the source, surely?
> 
> Michael Kay