Ampersand problem

Hello all

Am having slight problems with the Ampersand problem.  I do know "&" shouldn't 
be used, and "&" should be used instead, as I read in an message dated 31st 
Jan 2001 ( http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-
list/archives/200101/msg01502.html ) but I've got a small problem with 
Quicktime and the "&" thing.

What I'm trying to do is to embed a Quicktime movie in an HTML page, and 
Quicktime uses SMIL to display the video and links that comes up at certain 
times.  The links goes to other Quicktime movies.  The links has to have URL's 
with &'s in them.  Not a serious problem in itself, IE is fine with that.  But 
when a link is clicked in Quicktime, it loads up the new SMIL file from the 
server.  Which is just fine.

The thing is that I'm using XSLT to create the HTML and SMIL files to contain 
the correct clips, and the parser I use (Xalan) outputs "&" as "&" but when 
Quicktime tries to parse the URL, it chokes and crashes.  It *has* to have "&" 
in the URL - "&" will not work. 

So how do I make Xalan output a pure "&" in the SMIL file?

Thanks very much in advance for your help

Cheers - Piers

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