[xsl] recognize character entities

[Frank Marent <frank.marent@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi all.

is there a way to recognize and filter only elements which text()
begins with a character entity?

 <Element>&Amp;This is filtered</Element>
 <Element>&epsilon;This filtered</Element>
 <Element>&euro;This is filtered</Element>
 <Element>This is *not* filtered</Element>
 <Element>And this also not</Element>

in a template match like

  <xsl:template match="Element[starts-with(text(),
'recognize_a_character_entity_here')]">
      <NewElement>
          <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
      </NewElement>
  </xsl:template>

for mathematical xml-files we have a lot (around 2000) character
entities to recognize and no chance to select them individually.

thanks in advance
for any help

frank

(thanks to mukul, abel and michael for answering my apostrophe/
quotation mark question)
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