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Subject: Re: [xsl] &#8226;
From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 01:31:35 +0100
> Why doesn't this XML content:      &amp;#8226;
> produce this output:               &#8226;

Why do you think it should? The first is 6 characters in the stylesheet.
6 non white space characters in character data always just produce 6
characters in the output. Your required output is one character
reference. To get that character put &#8226; into the stylesheet.

> It's bloody nigh impossible to get my XML parser (Xalan-Java) NOT to 
> recognize entities except for this one case where recognizing it 

It does recognise it. &amp; means an ampersand as character not as
markup, so that's what appears in the result tree. But that ampersamd
character in teh result tree has to be linearised as &amp; otherwise
parsing teh result wouldn't reproduce that character.

You haven't said why you think just putting &#8226; into the stylesheet
does not work. 

David


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