Many thanks to Steve and David.  Spencer, I'm sorry I didn't post my XSL...
I totally spaced that.

The copy-of worked!  I didn't even know about copy-of, so it was great to
learn something knew.

Thanks!
Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve [mailto:subsume@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 10:48 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Question Regarding the display of <a> tag from XML

use copy-of instead of value-of =)

If you think about it, <a>, while its still HTML, its also legitimate XML.

-Steve

On 3/21/07, Tim Golen <tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm new to the group, and fairly new to XSL.  I'm using XML version 1.0
and
> XSL version 1.0.  I'm building a site with PHP and I have a message stored
> in a MySQL database that I'm trying to display to the user.  This is what
> the message looks like in the database:
>
> One of the swarms you have joined called "Whiskies Cat Food" has entered a
> bid battle.  To view this swarm, click <a
> href="index.php?module=swarm&amp;action=view&amp;swarmId=1">here</a>.
>
> My xml looks like this:
>
> <message>
>                 <from>Whiskies Cat Food</from>
>                 <subject>Swarm In Bid Battle!</subject>
>                 <timeSent>20070321113046</timeSent>
>                 <message><![CDATA[One of the swarms you have joined called
> "Whiskies Cat Food" has entered a bid battle.  To view this swarm, click
<a
>
href="index.php?module=swarm&amp;action=view&amp;swarmId=1">here</a>.]]></me
> ssage>
>
>
<deleteUrl>index.php?module=myeswarm&amp;action=deleteMessage&amp;messageId=
> 35</deleteUrl>
> </message>
>
> Unfortunately the XSL displays it exactly as what's in the database, and
the
> anchor tags don't become a link.  If I remove the  <![CDATA[]]> from the
XML
> the XSL just displays the message as the following and throws out the
anchor
> tags completely:
>
> One of the swarms you have joined called "Whiskies Cat Food" has entered a
> bid battle.  To view this swarm, click here.
>
> Can you help me to get the anchor tag to display as an actual link that
can
> be clicked on?
> Thanks,
> Tim