I see what you mean :) yes, indeed that would work. No, I did not know about
loadXML() before this. The methods available to me via MS' XMLDOM was not
known to me before this and I could only try each relevant method I could
find in the W3C DOM specs and see if it worked in MS' implementation. Color
me frustrated...

Well, I finally found a good library on the MS XMLDOM implementation: 

http://www.devguru.com/Technologies/xmldom/quickref/xmldom_intro.html

yes!!!

Thanks, Geert!!

Wong


-----Original Message-----
From: Geert Josten [mailto:Geert.Josten@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 9:51 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  converting encoded characters <, > etc


> Set newNode = objNode.createNode(1, "OutField1", "")
> newNode.Text = "<p>Hello World</p>"

Here is the cause of &gt; and &lt; appearing in your result. You pass < and
> as literal text. They 
are escaped before being inserted in the DOM tree..

> Why did I not parse through "<p>Hello World</p>" and derive some nodes
from
> there? Well, 'cos it can be any HTML tag and I'm not confident I'll be
able
> to create a template for all the tags that might appear.

I'm not sure we understand each other. What I meant is that you should try
to do something like:

Set tempDoc = New DOMDocument40 (or some object like that)
tempDoc.loadXML("<p>Hello World</p>");

objNode.addChild(tempDoc.firstChild);

It shouldn't matter whether the <p> contains <a> elements or not, as long as
the string you pass 
contains well-formed XML...

Good luck.

Geert