> Greetings!
> 
>      I am having some characters like {i},{/i} in the xml 
> file. whenever i
> find the word like {i} in xml i shd replace the "{" with "<" and while
> viewing the contents in the html browser i shd get the text 
> to be italised
> once it finds the tag like that..Can any one tell me how to do that ?
> 

This kind of processing is best done with a text-processing language like
Perl, not with XSLT. XSLT works at the level of trees of nodes, not at the
markup level.

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