Identity Transform with preservation of entities

[cawoodm]

I need an identity XSLT that does not change the incoming XML document.
The trick is that I need the entities to be preserved. My current
transform converts   to the copyright symbol in the output
document.
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TEST.XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252"?>
<component>
<content>
<small>© Copyright</small>
</content>
</component>
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TEST.XSL
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output indent="yes" method="xml" encoding="windows-1252"/>
<xsl:template match="/component">
<xsl:copy-of select="content/*"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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MSXSL TEST.XML TEST.XSL > OP.XML

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OP.XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252"?>
<small>© Copyright</small>
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Desired output:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252"?>
<small>  Copyright</small>

[Richard Tobin]

In article <11**********************@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups .com>,
<ca*****@gmail.com> wrote:

I need an identity XSLT that does not change the incoming XML document.
The trick is that I need the entities to be preserved.
Why? they are equivalent as XML documents.
My current
transform converts   to the copyright symbol in the output
document.

That's not technically an entity, it's a character reference.

There's no way to make XSLT not expand character and entity references
when it reads the file. However, if you specify an output encoding of
"ascii", then it will have to output references for all the characters
above 127.

-- Richard