> which does produce the same output.  But I'm not sure this is better
> markup than using "disable-output-escaping".

yes, a lot better!
>  Specifically, if I had
> to use variables inside the CDATA section; I'd be up a creek.

No just stop the CDATS section use xs:value-of, and restart cdata secion
if needed afterwards.

David

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