> I have to process an XML document that contains elements of the form
> 
>      <and id="1">
>        <content>
>          <expression first="aa" second="bb"/>
>        </content>
>      </and>
> 
> Unfortunately, Xalan 1.4 complains if I use an XSLT 
> stylesheet with lines like <xsl:apply-templates 
> select="and"/> or <xsl:template match="and"> because "and" 
> has a special meaning as an XPath function.
> 
> Does anybody has an idea how to deal with such a case?

Isn't Xalan 1.4 rather old? I would imagine they have fixed this bug by now.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/