XSLT HTML output escaping problem

I am having problems with JAXP XSLT output escaping in HTML. I have an XML document which correctly escapes &, <, > etc (eg: &amp). However, when I transform the document the XSLT processor is escaping these values again. This means that the HTML output contains & where the XML document contains & (for example). Surely correctly escaped characters in the XML should be left alone? Or should the XML document not contain escaped characters? In my understanding special characters in text nodes of XML documents should be escaped. Obviously a work around is to disable output escaping on these nodes but that is a real pain to have to do each time you pull a value through from the XML document. I'm confused as to what format the XSLT processor expects the XML to be in in relation to escaping of elements. Any information gratefully accepted!
Thanks.

Sorry! I was getting confused - the special characters were being escaped twice before they reached the XSLT processor. It looks like the processor will leave alone escape sequences that are already in the XML when it transforms to HTML.

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