>>  Hi all,
>>   Very simply, I'm trying to do the following:
>>
>>  <![CDATA[</i>]]>
>>
>>  but the < and > are being escaped as < and > in the
>>  output which is
>>  not what I want. How do output the symbols themselves? My
>>  output method is
>>  html and I'm using xalan 1.2.
>
>>By putting the <i/> in CDATA, you are telling the system that the "<" 
and
>>">" are ordinary characters, and are not to be treated as markup. If you
>>want them treated as markup, don't put them in CDATA.
>
>
>
I've had this problem, too, when I wanted to output partial nodes. If you
do
<xsl:value-of select="." disable-output-escaping='yes' />
when you are pushing to the output stream, then it should come out as </i>
and not < /i >
-Corey Haines
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