[xsl] Problems matching end-of-line character

[Kenneth Stephen <marvin.the.cynical.robot@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

    I'm having trouble processing the &#x0A character. Here is a testcase :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
	<!ENTITY EOL "&#x0A;">
	<!ENTITY TAB "&#x09;">
	<!ENTITY SPACE "&#x20;">
]>
<xsl:stylesheet
	xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
	xmlns:exsl-common="http://exslt.org/common";
	xmlns:exsl-str="http://exslt.org/strings";
	version="1.0"
	extension-element-prefixes="exsl-common exsl-str"
	exclude-result-prefixes="exsl-common exsl-str">

	<xsl:variable name="var1" xml:space="preserve">
<a>
x<!-- The content of "a" is &EOL;x&EOL -->
</a>
	</xsl:variable>

	<xsl:variable name="var2" xml:space="preserve">
<a>
x <!-- The content of "a" is &EOL;x&SPACE;&EOL -->
</a>
	</xsl:variable>

	<xsl:template match="/">
		<xsl:if test="contains(exsl-common:node-set($var1)/a/text(),'&EOL;')">
			<xsl:message>Contains EOL(1)</xsl:message>
		</xsl:if>
		<xsl:if test="contains(exsl-common:node-set($var2)/a/text(),'&EOL;')">
			<xsl:message>Contains EOL(2)</xsl:message>
		</xsl:if>
	</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

    Both Xalan 2.6.3 and Saxon 6.5.4 produce the following type of output :

file:///D:/xsl/code/testcases/Entities.xsl; Line #32; Column #17;
Contains EOL(2)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

    Why is the end-of-line in $var1 not visible?

Thanks,
Kenneth