I'm SO sorry to have stolen your time !!! I was totally wrong, it is NOT xalan that escapes the ampersand, it is only the XML-generating apis.
Sorry again! sonja > > No, the INPUT is ü and I like to have it in the output, too, but > > the output is &#252; > > I only use decimal character references, but they are never recognized > > as such but always the ampersand gets escaped :-( > > > > That is, I don't want xalan to introduce character references (I mean, > > it may do so) but it shall just leave the existing ones as they are. > > Xalan doesn't introduce character references in the sense you point > above. The case you describe seems like escaping the '&' symbol from > the input character data, but then it is part of the character data > and not part of the markup. Could you give an example input? > -- Sonja Löhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
