One traditional way is to provide a DTD or schema that defines these entities for the input doc and make sure the parser can use it (to expand them, or at least to not barf at them).
This is really a parser question, since Xalan doesn't even see the input document itself (we only get data after the parser's parsed it), so you might want to ask on a xerces list. ===== - Shane <eof aka="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" .sig="Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas." /> __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more http://games.yahoo.com/
