problem with entities (?)

Hi,

Given:

<!ENTITY ST_URL "&lt; a href='http://www.blah.com/b.pl?A=">
<!ENTITY EN_URL "'&gt;click here &lt;/a&gt;">

Declared in the DTD, is there a way I can include these in XSL in a
manner that would form a link which Ie5 will interpret as a link?

I am trying to construct a query_string for each product, sort of like:

&ST_URL;<xsl:value-of select="ID">&EN_URL;

Where ID is a string like ISBN-0909.78WHATEVER, to form:

<a href='http://www.blah.com/b.pl?A=ISBN-0909.78WHATEVER'>Click here</a>

If those entities are used without the ascii codes, IE5 just ignores
the  <A> tag and displays "click here".  We have tried using xlink as
well, but it seems that IE5 doesn't bother with xlink either. *sigh*

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Matthew MacKenzie


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