FredB wrote:

> <data>
>     <item><b>BOLD<b></item>  (ignore the non-escaped character for examples 
> sake)
> </data>
> 
> portion of a sample xsl:
> <Row>
> <Cell ss:StyleID="s80"><data ss:Type="string"> <xsl:value-of 
> select="item"/></Data></Cell>
> </Row>
> 
> The Resuting data in my spread sheet is literally "<b>BOLD</b>" as opposed 
> to the text being bolded.
> 
> Is it possible to go straight from html data to the correpsonding format in 
> excel?

I don't know whether Excel recognizes HTML elements like 'b', you would 
have to ask in an Excel group.
If you want to transform those HTML elements then don't use 
<xsl:value-of select="item"/>, instead use <xsl:apply-templates 
select="item"/>
and make sure you write templates to transform e.g. 'b' to the 
corresponding Excel markup e.g.
   <xsl:template match="b">
     <!-- put Excel markup here -->
       <xsl:apply-templates/>
     <!-- put Excel markup here -->
   </xsl:template>

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