Hi Everyone

I'm struggling with trying to define custom replacements for the 'lt' and 
'gt' predefined entities in the ISO_NUM.ent file.

Actually . . . it's rather straight forward to edit this file, but it's 
another story to get my custom values to take effect for these two entities.

If my XML files contains < and > as in the example below:

<P>10 &gt; 5 and 100 &lt; 1000</P>

... and my ISO_NUM.ent file has the following:

<!ENTITY lt    "&lt;&lt;">  <!-- LESS-THAN SIGN -->
<!ENTITY gt    "&gt;&gt;">  <!-- GREATER-THAN SIGN -->

... I *still* end up with:

10 > 5 and 100 < 1000

... even though I've asked for TWO > and < symbols.

This is what I want:

10 >> 5 and 100 << 1000

All other custom replacements are working in my ENT files ... just not the 
'lt' and 'gt' ones.  And it's driving me crazy!

Anyone know how to work around this?  Is there something in my XSLT 
stylesheet/template that I can turn ON of OFF to allow my custom definitions 
for these special/predefined entities to take effect?

Thanks in advance.

Yours,

Allan Shearer