Simple Question

I know that this is a really simple question but I just can't seem to
figure it out. I want to print out xml if a certain condition is true,
so I thought the bottom would work, but of course it isn't valid xml.
Any ideas?

	<xsl:if test="$a != $times">
		<xqx:orOp>
			<xqx:firstOperand>
	</xsl:if>

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