> but that's it from me:-)

hey, you have to backtranslate your <x1> ... <x9> tags into <1> ... <9>!

<xsl:template match="x1|x2|x3|x4|x5|x6|x7|x8|x9">
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;<xsl:value-of 
select="substring(name(),2)" />&gt;</xsl:text>
<xsl:apply-templates />
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;/<xsl:value-of 
select="substring(name(),2)" />&gt;</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>

or, alternatively, again by using sed ...
Oliver

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