Problem Translating 'escaped' HTML tags to real HTML

Hi,

I need to translate an XML doc to HTML. The XML contains HTML tags in the
format <br> This needs to be translated such that it is seen as a line
brake tag by the browser.

I have tried the following search-replace template:

<xsl:template name="BR">
  <xsl:param name="stringIn"/>
  <xsl:choose>
   <xsl:when test="contains($stringIn, '&lt;br&gt;')">
      <xsl:value-of select="substring-before($stringIn, '&lt;br&gt;')"/>
	<br/>
      <xsl:call-template name="BR">
          <xsl:with-param name="stringIn" select="substring-after($stringIn,
'&lt;br&gt;')"/>
      </xsl:call-template>
   </xsl:when>
   <xsl:otherwise>
	<xsl:value-of select="$stringIn"/>
   </xsl:otherwise>
   </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

however the returned text does not contain the <br/> tags!!?? If I
substitute this text for non HTML (eg AAA) this IS inserted into the input
string.

I have tried using an xsl:element tag: <xsl:element>br</xsl:element>. This
is ignored too.

I have also tried to use an xsl:text tag: <xsl:text><br></xsl:text> and
<xsl:text>[CDATA[<br>]]</xsl:text>. Both of these result in a SAX exception
stating the a br tag is not legal in this location. (I amusing Xalan-J2.4.0
and the example servlet 'SimpleXSLTServlet' to perform the translation.

Ideally I would like to simply translate all &lt; to < and all &gt; to > ,
so all the HTML tags in the XML get displayed properly.

cheers

Paul Davies

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