> So is sablotron doing the right thing here, or is Saxon?

saxon by the sound of it.

> I expect < to be
> output as '<', and '<H1>' as '<H1>' in both text and html output mode.

I can't see why you would expect that.

In html output mode, as in xml a less than character, appearing as &lt;
in the stylesheet has to be output as something that is valid in html
so it will be written out as &lt;. If you generate an H1 element node
in the stylesheet using <H1>..</H1> then that element node will be
output using element start and end tags  <H1>..</H1> t

in text mode characters are never escaped using xml/html syntax so a
less than character (which would be entered in the stylesheet as &lt;)
appears as <, however text does not have element nodes so an H1 element
node produces nothing in a text output just it's character data, this is
the same string value as you would get from using value-of applied to an
H1 element in the source.


David

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