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From: Peter Flynn <peter.nosp@-.--------.-->
To: NULL
Date: 9/7/2005 11:56:00 PM

Stephan Hoffmann wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I use XML mainly as a source for HTML. HTML browsers 'know'
> certain entity references like &eacute; or &auml;.
> 
> When I use XSL to transform XML to HTML or XML, these entities are
> replaced by what they refer to.
> 
> Is there a way to avoid that?

Not really: this is what transformation is *supposed* to do. 
Martin suggested some processors might provide facilities for
doing this, but I haven't seen them in operation.

> Two reasons to avoid that:
> - On my linux machine xsltproc replaced the entities in a way that
> my browser did not correctly display the resulting HTML
> (I updated my linux distribution and it now works).
> 
> - &lt; is replaced by < and the output is no longer valid XML/HTML

The topic is covered in the FAQ at http://xml.silmaril.ie/authors/cdata/

///Peter

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