Rob

I'm trying to gather a variable. I need a select statement that will reliably achieve the outputs below:
XML is
<study.name>Cold Agglutinin <intl type="spelling"><us>Titer</us><ca>Titre</ca></intl> </study.name>

Need output to be Cold Agglutinin Titer

Gets only what's in <us> descendant

OR

<study.name><intl type="spelling"><us>Color</us><ca>Colour</ca></intl> Perception Test</study.name>

Need output to be Color Perception Test

Gets only what's in <us> descendant

If I add this to the source file it works:

<!DOCTYPE mainentry [
<!ENTITY abreve "&#38;#x0103;">
]>

I get proper output of ă

However, I cannot add that to all of the files. Is there something I can do in the XSLT to accomplish this? Somehow insert that and other entity declarations either into the doc or with an include of somekind?

That is what's happening. It uses a custom-bulit engine.

This is how the $storage variable is being created:

                    <xsl:copy-of select="doc(concat('c:///service/assets/asset/id/', asset/@id, '/version/', asset/@version, '/storage/master/file'))"/>

Is there a better way to do that so that it wouldn't do this?

Sorry, yes, here's all of the methods I've tried:

                    <pronounce><xsl:value-of select="$storage/mainentry/pronounce[1]/text()" disable-output-escaping="yes"/></pronounce><br/>
                    <pronounce><xsl:value-of select="$storage/mainentry/pronounce[1]/text()" disable-output-escaping="no"/></pronounce>
                    <pronounce><xsl:value-of select="$storage/mainentry/pronounce" disable-output-escaping="yes"/></pronounce>
                    <pronounce><xsl:value-of select="$storage/mainentry/pronounce" disable-output-escaping="no"/></pronounce>
                    <pronounce><xsl:value-of select="$storage/mainentry/pronounce[1]" disable-output-escaping="yes"/></pronounce>
                    <pronounce><xsl:value-of select="$storage/mainentry/pronounce[1]" disable-output-escaping="no"/></pronounce>

The all produce same result:

    <pronounce>-bs d-trnt</pronounce>
    <pronounce>-bs d-trnt</pronounce>
    <pronounce>-bs d-trnt</pronounce>
    <pronounce>-bs d-trnt</pronounce>
    <pronounce>-bs d-trnt</pronounce>

That was submitted prematurely. Allow me to restate:

I'm using XSLT to take XML and output to different XML.
   One node has
   <pronounce>&abreve;-b&umacr;s&prime; d&emacr;-t&ebreve;r&prime;&ebreve;nt</pronounce>
   This <xsl:value-of select="$storage/mainentry/pronounce[1]" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
   Only outputs -bs d-trnt but I want it to output exactly what's in the document:

&abreve;-b&umacr;s&prime; d&emacr;-t&ebreve;r&prime;&ebreve;nt

Or even transform the entities to the HTML equivalents.

Those entities are not declared in the document.
Is there a way to add a declaration to the style sheet? I cannot add the declaration to each of the thousands of documents.

Many thanks.

  I'm using XSLT to take XML and output to different XML.
 
  One node has
 
  <pronounce>&abreve;-b&umacr;s&prime; d&emacr;-t&ebreve;r&prime;&ebreve;nt</pronounce>
 
  This <xsl:value-of select="$storage/mainentry/pronounce[1]" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
 
  Only outputs -bs d-trnt but I want it to output exactly what's in the document:

&abreve;-b&umacr;s&prime; d&emacr;-t&ebreve;r&prime;&ebreve;nt

Or even transform the entities to the HTML equivalents.

Those entities are not declared in the document.
Is there a way to add a declaration to the style sheet? I cannot add the declaration to each of the thousands of documents.

Many thanks.

I'm using XSLT to take XML and output to different XML.

One node has

<pronounce>&abreve;-b&umacr;s&prime; d&emacr;-t&ebreve;r&prime;&ebreve;nt</pronounce>

This <xsl:value-of select="$storage/mainentry/pronounce[1]" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>

Only outputs -bs d-trnt but I want it to output exactly what's in the document:
&abreve;-b&umacr;s&prime; d&emacr;-t&ebreve;r&prime;&ebreve;nt