>     I am pretty new to xml and xsl.
> 
>     I have an xml file in the following format:
>     <ne_resp cmd="show port counters">
>         <line>Rx 64b< <128b  :           0 |TxSingleCollPkt:
> 0</line>
>     <ne_resp>
> 

This isn't an XML file. In an XML file, the "<" in the content would be
escaped as "&lt;".

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/