html/named entities

[S Woodside]

Hi I'm happily converting my website over to axkit and have encountered this IMHO very annoying aspect of XML/XSLT - that I can't use named entities that are the default (X)HTML set without all kind of non-trivial crap.

I understand that there are lots of fancy uses for entities in XSLT that is completely different from HTML. However it seems that mostly these are also accessible through XSLT functions and so I am not interested in that (should I be??). Instead I just want to be able to pass through my entities like &copy, and so on without any hassle. I don't want to have to use <xsl:text blahblahblah>&amp;copy;</xsl:text> and other ugly constructions like that, or have to create length doctype declarations and so on.

Help?

simon

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