Special Characters in XML

<!ENTITY entity-name "entity-value">
<!ENTITY raquo "&#187;">

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

&#187; &#171; instead of &raquo; and &laquo;

&raquo; becomes &#187;

<![CDATA[&raquo;]]>

<!DOCTYPE ROOT_XML_ELEMENT [ <!ENTITY raquo "&#187;"> ]>

XmlDocument d = new XmlDocument();
 d.LoadXml("<foo/>");
 char c = (char)187;
 d.DocumentElement.InnerText = "Here's that character: " + c;
 Debug.WriteLine(d.OuterXml);
 d.DocumentElement.InnerText = "Here it is as an HTML entity: &raquo;";
 Debug.WriteLine(d.OuterXml);

<foo>Here's that character: »</foo>
<foo>Here it is as an HTML entity: &raquo;</foo>

<xsl:output use-character-maps="raquo.ent"/>
<xsl:character-map name="raquo.ent">
    <xsl:output-character character="&#187;" string="&raquo;"/>
</xsl:character-map>