You could use the saxon:serialize() extension function.

Michael Kay

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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Guy McArthur
> Sent: 19 June 2003 00:35
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> Subject:  escaping
> 
> 
> The description element of a RSS 2.0 item may contain entity-encoded 
> html. Is there an easy way to "escape" a block of input 
> xhtml, when the 
> output is xml? Small example of what the output should look like:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <rss version="2.0">
>    <item>
>      <description>
>         &lt;p&gt; This is a paragraph of html. &lt;/p&gt;
>      </description>
>    </item>
> </rss>
> 
> Which is pretty silly, don't know why they didn't allow it to 
> be xhtml, 
> and/or use namespaces.
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