> I've tried the same code in a htm file just to check if 
> the statement work and it did.

were you using the xml or html output method from your XSL?
in the former case your < will be output as &gt; and may well
not work in the script environment in a browser as you intend.

You could try adding the attribute 
cdata-section-elements = "script" 
to your xsl:output element if you are using the xml method.

David


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