Entity conversion

["Cory Isaacson (Compuflex)" <ci...@compuflex.com>]

I have an XML DOM in memory (using Xerces) I am transforming, and in some
cases I set an Element value to reserved chars (&, <, >, etc.). When I do
the transformation, these characters get transformed into entities, such as:
&amp; &gt;

Is there any way to prevent this behavior so that the original characters
are preserved in the transformed document? Is it Xalan that is doing this,
or is it Xerces when I set the value in the DOM itself?

Thanks in advance.

Cory