> Interesting problem i need to solve, either on the front end 
> or the backend,
> not sure which.  I just had an idea that "might" work, 
> front-end, if i could
> figure out how.
> 
> Sample DOM:
> 
> <page>
>   <item>
>   &lt;html&gt;
>     text-node containting escaped html
>   &lt;/html&gt;
>   </item>
> </page>
> 
> Knowing in advance that the escaped HTML is well-formed, is 
> there any way to
> evaluate this text-node string into a node-set and 
> apply-templates upon it?
> 
> Something like this perhaps?
> <xsl:apply-templates select="xx:node-set(unescape(//item))"/>

Sure if you write the unescape() function. However, I'd suggest

sed -e 's/&lt;/</' -e 's/&gt;/>/'

Cheers,

Jarno - Dreadful Shadows: Dirge (live)

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