[Exist-open] How to get   into the final result

[Stephen F. <ste...@hp...>]

I have XSLT files that I'm storing in the eXist database (1.0b1 current 
CVS).  The files have the entity " " used thoughout.  When they're 
loaded into the database, the entities are expanded since the files are 
being parsed.  I need to get the   or the numerical equivalent 
entity to appear in the final document.

I've tried a number of the techniques for specifying entities such as 
using   or using
<!DOCTYPE stylesheet [
  <!ENTITY nbsp "<xsl:text 
disable-output-escaping='yes'>&amp;nbsp;</xsl:text>

I either get the &nbsp; expanded to blanks or to "&amp;nbsp;" depending 
on what I try.  In the latter case, I end up with the text "&amp;nbsp;" 
rather than the blank.

I've also tried using <![CDATA[&nbsp;]]> which still gets expanded to 
"&amp;nbsp;".
Another attempt was to use &#38;nbsp; - this got expanded to &amp;nbsp;.

I've also tried using the xmlchar stylesheets (http://xmlchar.sf.net/.) 
but the characters in the their stylesheets get expanded to the actual 
characters so that &nbsp; is a blank.

Unfortunately, "&nbsp;" appears also in our xml content files. If it 
were just the XSLT files, I would just store them externally.

This has to be a common problem anywhere that XML goes through more than 
one parser- has anyone come up with a solution? 

Thanks in advance,

Steve Fleischman