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This is bad practice, and should be avoided. The character &_#2022; (underscore for some mailers) is the same character regardless of whether it is the actual character or the character reference. Why do you need the string '&_#2022;' in your output? An xml parser will report the same character regardless. Using d-o-e breaks the model and isn't even supported by Xalan. However, one technique to achieve this sort of output is to use an encoding that doesn't support the character, thereby forcing the serialiser to output a reference instead. Try using <xsl:output encoding="ISO-8859-1"/> cheers andrew
