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John, You might want to check that the proper entity references are turned to INCLUDE in the ead.dtd file you are referencing--if you have not done this already. I am not sure this will solve your problem, but it worked for me when I was having some trouble referring to other character entities that are also included in the HTML 4.0 set. Chris -- Christopher J. Prom Assistant University Archivist University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign 19 Library 1408 W. Gregory Dr. Urbana, IL 61821 phone: 217.333.0798 fax: 217.333.2868 e-mail: [log in to unmask] web: http://web.library.uiuc.edu/ahx On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Rees, John (NIH/NLM) wrote: > All, > > Thanks to Mike, Liz and Mark for the tips. Liz and Mark's tips did produce a > space, but I needed the actual ' ' characters to appear as a string. My > inspiration last night was to try using hexadecimal characters in place of > the '&'--it worked nicely. The documentation for 'disable-output-escaping' > states it should only be used as a last resort, so I don't understand why it > did not perform in this specific case. > > For those who care, IE (at least with 5.5) requires a character within > <a></a> for anchor refs to work-- works nicely as it is an empty > character. I also need something there to pass our HTML validation software. > I had been entering the string by hand after transformation. I'm using > Cookbook stylesheets. > > John > > > --- "Rees, John (NIH/NLM)" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > I'm having trouble getting the  : entity to output using XSL. From > > XML.com, <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><</xsl:text> > > produces the angle bracket, but I get a parse error with . > > Perhaps > > this is an XT issue? > > > > Any advice is appreciated. > > > > John > > > > John P. Rees > > Associate Curator, Modern Manuscripts > > History of Medicine Division > > National Library of Medicine > > 8600 Rockville Pike > > Bethesda, MD 20894 > > > > Phone: 301.496.8953 > > Fax: 301.402.7034 > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail >