saphotoancm xsl pt

<fo:table-cell number-rows-spanned="3">. Dont you just love how wordy XSL is?

<xsl:value-of select="XPATH EXPRESSION" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>. Now, in your specific case you say that &amp;s within text boxes are being displayed as "&amp;". I dont see that at all.

The ancestor::Locus[1] is because we need to extract the Locus Id at a point where the current context is its first Allele. If you want to avoid adding rowspan="1" for single-allele loci, youll have to use a...