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copied!<p>I am working on an XSLT transformation to re-arrange XML blocks to validate NewsML files. Some of these files contains encoded characters (such as &amp; &quot; etc...). The problem is the XSLT transformation is converting these characters to their literal string (ie "and", "'"). This is causing problems. I do not want this to happen.</p> <p>I have experimented with various techniques (uses of <xsl:text>, <xsl:value-of> and the disable-output-escaping flag, <xsl:output method='xml|html|xhtml|text'>) to no avail. These methods either, convert the characters, or simply leave them out.</p> <p>eg, a string which starts with "stars on PM&amp;apos;s cards" can end up as</p> <ul> <li>stars on PM's cards</li> <li>stars on PMs cards</li> </ul> <p>I am using the Saxonica (<a href="http://www.saxonica.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.saxonica.com/</a>) processing app.</p> <p>The basic XSLT I am using is provided below. (There are other things but the problem exists even with this simplest stylesheet)</p> <pre><code><xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output method="xml" indent="no" /> <xsl:template match="@*|node()"> <xsl:copy> <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/> </xsl:copy> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> </code></pre> <p>Any ideas on how to prevent this conversion would be most appreciated. The requirement is to keep the original text as it appears.</p>

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