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> Is it in the spirit of XML to let the parser expand the entity > references back to themselves? For example, in the above situation, is > this a reasonable thing to do: <!ENTITY euro "&euro;"> It might be (but probably isn't:-) But that isn't making teh entity reference convert back to itself, it's making it expand to the 6 characters €, not to an entity reference. the real question is why are you looking for the entity refs. The whole point of entities are supposed to be as an author convenience so if the _author_ doesn't have a euro key on his or her keyboard and finds it convenient to instead type € that they may do so safe in the knowledge that alllater applications will treat € the same as if the character had been entered directly. So if you make € be something else then the "spirit" has been broken in that now the character and the entity ref will do different things. Do you really need to look for entity refererences or do you need to look for characters that are normally entered via entity references? If you do end up redefining teh entities, it's easier to test for <entity name="euro"/> in xslt1 than it is for a string containing &euro; and much easier to use xslt to convert it back to a single character. But the question is really _why_ do you want to treat € differently from € ? David
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