how do you get non-xhtml data through the XSL processor?

[Evan Eustace <evan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

We allow users to put chunks of HTML in the database, we call these
chunks wildcards.
In our XSLT stylesheet we want to be able to output those chunks as-is
to the output document.

In my XML source document I have will non-xhtml formatted html inside
CDATA tags:

<wildcard>
<![CDATA[
<br><br>
not-well-formed html
<br><br>
]]>
</wildcard>

but now when I do this:

<xsl:value-of select="wildcard"/>

the output has all of the angle brackets/chevrons, whatever you want to
call them in the HTML, formatted as entity chars like:
&lt; &gt;

so the above is output as:

&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
not-well-formed html
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;



When i remove the CDATA, and make the HTML well-formed, I get the same
problem.

The output of the processor is set to HTML.

Help !?! Anyone?

Thanks,
-Evan


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