Hellip Referenced - maxloops variable

[Dan]

I am receiving an error "The entity hellip was referenced, but not declared"
My confusion is I am not parsing anything related to a hellip (...). I have
attempted to reference hellip with "<!DOCTYPE document SYSTEM "C:\xml-
ISOents.txt">" with no change. The back story is I am trying to create a
variable in the maxloops call - rather than changing fixed numbers for each
site parsed I am parsing out the last page number and attempting to insert the
variable number into maxloops call. My code is as follows:

<include path="\\functions1.xml"/>

<var-def name="max" overwrite="false">

<xpath expression="distinct-values(//div//ul//a//span)">

<http url="&lt;a class=" "="" href="http://www..com">http://www..com"/>

</xpath>

</var-def>

<var-def name="products">

<call-param name="baseUrl"></call-param>

<call-param name="pageUrl">http://www.</call-param>

<call-param name="nextXPath">distinct-values(//a/@href)</call-param>

<call-param name="itemXPath">//li</call-param>

<call-param name="maxloops"><template>${max}</template></call-param>

<call name="download-multipage-list">

I was utlizing a different xpath expression and utilizing a tokenize function
when the error started surfacing. I moved to another number that would not
require regular expressions to narrow down - this number was in a completely
different part of the site so I am confident I am not accidentally parsing
hellip. One last note I tried to specifcially reference the hellip in my
DOCTYPE and when that failed I downloaded a list and attempted to call from
the hard drive - with same unsucessful results.

Any Help is greatly appreciated

Dan