You can not retain the entities as they are expanded by the XML parser
before XSLT starts, so they are not in its input tree at all, however
since you are using XSLT2 you can use character-maps to write those
characters (whether or not entered as entities) as entity refs.
There are some ready made character maps for those entities
available from
http://www.w3.org/2003/entities/xhtml1doc
just download the xsl files and import xhtml1map.xsl
David
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