How xsl:message serialises things is implementation dependednt but
mostly systems serialise as for xml so  there is no need to do this:

> I would suggest, wrap the contents of xsl:message in a <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">.

Just put <foo/> elements in the message not &lt;foo/&gt; then it's an
element node not text so there won't be any escaping to disable and it
will all just work.

David

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