<xsl:template match="doc">
<xsl:apply-templates select="label" /> <!-- ok! -->
<xsl:variable name="label">
<xsl:apply-templates select="label" />
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:value-of select="$label" /> <!-- not ok -->
<xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="$label" /> <!-- ok
-->
</xsl:template>
which processor are you using?
d-o-e is optional so a processor can ignore it altogether, but if it
supports it at all I think that in xslt1 the character should keep the
d-o-e property even when it goes through the variable.
Is your input form fixed?
It would be easier if your
<ent>xxx</ent>
only took entity names, as then you could convert them easily to
characters without using d-o-e just by looking them up in a document of
the form
<entity name="copy" char="©"/>
...
There is no need to have an input form of
<ent>#x0A</ent>
as the user can more simply write


which then doesn't need any processing at all at the xslt level.
David
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