using php to process xml/xsl problem

From: Deli (nospam_at_nospam.com)
Date: 01/30/05 

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:08:00 -0000

I am generating XML documents through php 4 and then server side processing
them with an XSL style*** to produce a page. The problem I have however
is with the & when storing long URL strings in the XML. I am expecting
& to be converted into a "&" when producing the final HTML, but instead
it stays as "&", thus making the url invalid. If I change this to a
straight "&" in the XML it obviously produces an XML error as it is invalid
(expected).

As an example The XML is (I've stripped off all the declaration sections):
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<pageList><num>1</num><link>mailingList.php?start=0&amp;currentLetter=*</link></pageList>
<pageList><num>2</num><link>mailingList.php?start=100&amp;currentLetter=*</link></pageList>
<pageList><num>3</num><link>mailingList.php?start=200&amp;currentLetter=*</link></pageList>
--------------------------------------

The XSL :
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<a>
 <xsl:attribute name="href"><xsl:value-of select="link"/></xsl:attribute>
Test
</a>
--------------------------------------

And the php used to combine
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  function processXML($xml, $xsl)
  {
   $xml = str_replace("\\0", "", $xml);
   $arguments = array('/_xml' => stripslashes($xml), '/_xsl' =>
stripslashes($xsl));
   $result = xslt_process($this->parser, 'arg:/_xml', 'arg:/_xsl', NULL,
$arguments);
   return $result;
  }
--------------------------------------

The final output comes out as
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 <a href="mailingList.php?start=0&amp;currentLetter=*">Test</a>
 <a href="mailingList.php?start=100&amp;currentLetter=*">Test</a>
 <a href="mailingList.php?start=200&amp;currentLetter=*">Test</a>
--------------------------------------
which is wrong as I was expecting the &amp; to be converted to &

As a test I took the &amp; out of the XML and manually added them into the
XSL, alas it produced the same results.

I am using php on windows if that means anything

If anyone has any ideas they would be apreciated

Thanks

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