AndrewF wrote:


> Something that has come up is that we have had to define a bunch of
> different entities which are are doing at the top of the XSL doc where
> it is needed - thus:
> 
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
>         <!ENTITY copy "&#169;">
>         <!-- copyright symbol -->
>         <!ENTITY infin "&#8734;">
>         <!-- infinity symbol -->
>         <!ENTITY nbsp "&#160;">
>         <!-- space -->
> ]>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">

Those entities are then defined inside of the XSLT stylesheet but don't 
expect the XSLT processor to use such entities when it serializes a 
transformation result. It will simply output the entity replacement 
characters or perhaps numeric character references.

If you want to have a DOCTYPE delcaration in the transformation result 
then use
   <xsl:output
     method="xml"
     doctype-public="public identifier goes here"
     doctype-system="system identifier goes here" />





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