[xsl] Document() and &

["Josh Beach" <josh dot beach at obinary dot com>]

Good day all,

I am trying to read in a source document mid way through a 
translation using the Document function. This works great 
when the parameter passed to the document function is a 
reference to a file on the local machine or when it is a 
URI reference. ie.
<xsl:apply-templates select="document('aDocument.xml')"/>
or
<xsl:apply-templates 
select="document('http://www.somewhere.com/aDocument.xml')"/>

It also works if the passed parameter is a variable, 
include, or a param. ie.
<xsl:apply-templates 
select="document($DocumentReference)"/>
or
<xsl:apply-templates 
select="document(@DocumentReference)"/> in the case of 
include.

So on to my problem... what I need is for the reference to 
contain an ampersand. ie.
<xsl:apply-templates 
select="document('http://www.somewhere.com/getDocument.html?docType=xml&amp;id=12345')"/>

This will not work and gives the following error "Error 
while parsing 
'http://www.somewhere.com/getDocument.html?docType=xmlid=12345'. 
Missing equals sign between attribute and attribute 
value". Some where along the line the ampersand gets 
removed. I have also tried using just a '&' instead of a 
'&amp;' (even thought I know that it is improper to do so) 
and get the same error.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Josh Beach

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