special characters in xsl

Hi I am trying to use special characters like <,>,& etc in my xsl file. Does any one know how to avoid parsing this special characters in the xsl file.thanks vinayvinaymani@hotmail.com
[236 byte] By [vinaymani] at [2007-9-26 1:52:14]
# 1
< = <> = >& = &
shirish_wagh at 2007-6-29 3:01:41 > top of Java-index,Enterprise & Remote Computing,Enterprise Technologies...
# 2
oops ... & lt;& gt;& amp;( no space after "&" and semi colon required)
shirish_wagh at 2007-6-29 3:01:41 > top of Java-index,Enterprise & Remote Computing,Enterprise Technologies...
# 3

I think iam not clear I will explain it u in detail.

In my xml document i hve a text like this

<b> vinay </b>

when i use xsl to tranform it to browser, the values have been parsed like this

<b>vinay</b>

I dont want it to be parsed.

I should get the text in bold.

vinaymani at 2007-6-29 3:01:41 > top of Java-index,Enterprise & Remote Computing,Enterprise Technologies...
# 4

Hello -

If I understood the question correctly,...

In the XSL when you are transforming the xml if you do something like:

<xsl:template match="bold">

&lt;b&gt;vinay&lt;b&gt;

</xsl:template>

you are giving the browser the escapes. Which are translated into literal characters instead of instructions. The escapes used in HTML are the same as in XML.

you want to do

<xsl:template match="bold">

<b>vinay</b>

</xsl:template>

Hope this helps,

-Mike

mikepevans at 2007-6-29 3:01:41 > top of Java-index,Enterprise & Remote Computing,Enterprise Technologies...
# 5
Thanks I hve done it using this statement<xsl:value-of select="'&lt;BR/&gt;'" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
vinaymani at 2007-6-29 3:01:41 > top of Java-index,Enterprise & Remote Computing,Enterprise Technologies...