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Re: How do you get the non-transformed character entity out of MSXML3.0



> what is required here is the ability to keep it
> in a certain state (meaning untransformed) 

If you give &lt; to an XML parser it will return <
If you don't want that to happen do not use an XML parser on the file,
just read it as text.

As XSLT always uses an XML parser on the input it has no idea that the
original file had &lt; in it just as it has no idea whether the
attribute had " or ' around its value. Such syntactic issues are
not passed on by an XML parser to the application.

David

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