Thanks David,

    I may not have been completely clear my original post.  The XML 
documents I receive don't come with pre-escaped HTML but actual HTML. 
Here's a brief example:

<myDocument>
    <tag1>This is some <b>HTML</b> code</tag1>
</myDocument>

In this case, the <b> tags are HTML-escaped during the XSL transformation; I 
wind up with &lt and &rt instead, which screws me up when rendering the XML 
document.  I'd like to keep the <b> tags as-is, if possible, but it sounds 
like from your post that you can't do it at a global level, that you have 
use the disable-output-escaping attribute on every text node?  Sorry if 
these questions sound newbieish, and thanks again.

-Jim


"David Carlisle" <davidc@n...> wrote in message 
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> "Jim Bancroft" <bobsgambles@n...> writes:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>>     I receive XML documents which sometimes have HTML in the element
>> content.  When performing XSL transformations the HTML text is escaped,
>> which affects us when we eventually display it in a browser.
>
> It'll only be escaped in the output of it was escaped on input, although
> probably used &lt entity references rather than (say) CDATA sections,
> although these are equivalent. The usual advice is "don't start from
> here" ie have input of
> <foo><p>...<br/>...</p></foo>
> rather than
> <foo><![CDATA[<p>...<br/>...</p>]]></foo>
> then you can just xsl:copy-of select="foo/node()". However yu can't
> always control your input...
>
>
>>
>>     I understand there's a "disable-output-escaping" attribute that can 
>> be
>> used in <xsl:value-of> elements, but is there way to do the same thing
>> across the entire XML document, by default, without having to modify
>> individual XSL tags?
>>