JavaScript error in CDATA section: IE specific

[Charlie Kaiman <ckaiman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm wondering if someone has experienced a problem with IE, where a character in a CDATA section is returned as an entity reference????  Here's my _javascript_ code (wrapped in a CDATA section, in an XSL Style Sheet):

 

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="_javascript_">
<![CDATA[

 

function xmlParse() {
 source = document.XMLDocument;
 xNode = source.getElementsByTagName("data_x").item(0);
 strXNode = xNode.text;
 for (i = 0; i < strXNode.length; i++) {

  alert(strXNode);

 }

}

]]></SCRIPT>

 

I am getting an error due to the script being parsed out as:

 

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="_javascript_">
<![CDATA[

 

function xmlParse() {
 source = document.XMLDocument;
 xNode = source.getElementsByTagName("data_x").item(0);
 strXNode = xNode.text;
 for (i = 0; i &lt; strXNode.length; i++) {

  alert(strXNode);

 }

}

]]></SCRIPT>

 

Note the "&lt;" in the script????  Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?  Has anyone experienced the same problem?  Thanks!!