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    copied!<p>UPDATE: Failing cases</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?&gt; &lt;catalog&gt; &lt;cd&gt; &lt;title&gt;Empire &amp;amp; Burlesque&lt;/title&gt; &lt;artist&gt;Bob Dylan&lt;/artist&gt; &lt;country&gt;USA&lt;/country&gt; &lt;company&gt;Columbia&lt;/company&gt; &lt;price&gt;10.90&lt;/price&gt; &lt;year&gt;1985&lt;/year&gt; &lt;/cd&gt; &lt;/catalog&gt; </code></pre> <pre><code>&lt;catalog&gt; &lt;cd&gt; &lt;title&gt;Empire &amp; Burlesque&lt;/title&gt; &lt;artist&gt;Bob Dylan&lt;/artist&gt; &lt;country&gt;USA&lt;/country&gt; &lt;company&gt;Columbia&lt;/company&gt; &lt;price&gt;10.90&lt;/price&gt; &lt;year&gt;1985&lt;/year&gt; &lt;/cd&gt; &lt;/catalog&gt; </code></pre> <p>Hi I have a following XML</p> <pre><code>&lt;catalog&gt; &lt;cd&gt; &lt;title&gt;Empire Burlesque&lt;/title&gt; &lt;artist&gt;Bob Dylan&lt;/artist&gt; &lt;country&gt;USA&lt;/country&gt; &lt;company&gt;Columbia&lt;/company&gt; &lt;price&gt;10.90&lt;/price&gt; &lt;year&gt;1985&lt;/year&gt; &lt;/cd&gt; &lt;/catalog&gt; </code></pre> <p>The following XSL to translate the above</p> <pre><code>&lt;xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"&gt; &lt;xsl:template match="/"&gt; &lt;html&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;h2&gt;My CD Collection&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;table border="1"&gt; &lt;tr bgcolor="#9acd32"&gt; &lt;th&gt;Title&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;Artist&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;xsl:for-each select="catalog/cd"&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;xsl:value-of select="title"/&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;xsl:value-of select="artist"/&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/xsl:for-each&gt; &lt;/table&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; &lt;/xsl:template&gt; &lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt; </code></pre> <p>Upto now the translation happens fine. However, if I change the XML tag value to contain an encoded character like <code>&amp;</code> or <code>&amp;amp;</code> I am not getting a result</p> <p>How can I escape these characters?</p>
 

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