Try encoding the ampersand as & the amp is a reserved character and needs to be escaped. It might be dying because it doesn't see the semicolon. - adam On 9/26/02 8:56 AM, "Stevenson Ngila" <Stevenson at epr.footman-walker.com> wrote: > I have a database driven intranet which uses XSLT to format the XML files. > it crashes when it encounters '&'. How can i stop this from happening? > > Thanks, > Stevenson Ngila > Footman-Walker Associates Ltd > http://www.footman-walker.co.uk > > _________________________________ adam at brin.org http://adam.brin.org