I would have expected the left angle bracket to still be an entity - is this
correct?
No the character map forces it to be exactly the string specified
without going through XML escaping, In your case the string specified is
the single character "<" (The fact that you entered that character using
the entity < is irrelevant and in fact the xslt engine doesn't see
that entity in the input, it will have been expanded by the parser.
<xsl:output-character character=">" string=">"/>
<xsl:output-character character=">" string=">"/>
<xsl:output-character character=">" string=">"/>
all produce the same XML parse in the Xpath data model, so all form the
same input (and so, the same output) in xslt.
So you get out an unescaped <.
David
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