I was wondering if anyone knows if it is possible to do basic string
replacement using XSLT even though the strings being replaced may
contain "<" and ">".  Here is my problem:

I need to be able to convert XML like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<java version="1.4.2_03" class="java.beans.XMLDecoder">
 <object class="javax.swing.JButton">
  <string>Hello, world</string>
 </object>
</java>

Into XML like this(notice each "<" is replaced with "&lt;" and each
">" has been replaced with "&gt; and then it was wrapped in a SOAP
envelope"):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmln
s:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<soap:Body>
<SubmitRequest xmlns="http://apps.someurl.com/somePath/">
<xmlRequest>
&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
&lt;java version="1.4.2_03" class="java.beans.XMLDecoder"&gt;
 &lt;object class="javax.swing.JButton"&gt;
  &lt;string&gt;Hello, world&lt;/string&gt;
 &lt;/object&gt;
&lt;/java&gt;
</xmlRequest>
</SubmitRequest>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

I know it is possible to do this using just about any programming
language, but I want to know if it can be done using XSLT stylesheets.
 If it is possible does anyone know how?  Or could you direct me to a
tutorial on how to do this?

Thank you,

--J