> using Michaels' technique I get the usual entity problem in XML
> i.e. the output becomes:
> 
> <img src="x.bmp">
> &lt;tag/&lt;
> 
> which is no good to me as I need the proper tag.

Look into <xsl:element name="tag"/>

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