It is not outputting in XML, but in HTML, which is not nearly as strict
about that sort of thing.

If I take out the <xsl:output> tag, I get:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><test value="&lt;&gt;" />

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 16 May 2000 18:03
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Which is correct, xt or SAXON?
> 
> 
> 
> strange, I'd have expected
> 
> <test value="&lt;>"></test>
> or
> <test value="&lt;&gt;"></test>
> 
> which are equivalent 
> 
> you can't have a < in an attribute value in XML.
> 
> David
> 
> 
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