Preserving entity references when transforming XML with XSLT?

Question

How can I preserve entity references when transforming XML with XSLT (2.0)? With all of the processors I\'ve tried, the entity gets resolved by default. I can use xsl:

Answer 1

If you use a Java implementation of an XSLT 2.0 processor (like Saxon 9 Java) you might want to check whether http://andrewjwelch.com/lexev/ helps out, you can preprocess your XML with entity and character references that way to get them marked up as XML elements you can then transform as necessary.