> I have a real tight deadline, 

don't we all...

a replace template (from teh argchives) will typically have three
parameters the main string, a string to find and it's replacement
so yu want

<xsl:call-template name="replace">
  <xsl:with-param name="string" select="title"/>
  <xsl:with-param name="from" select="'&lt;b&gt;'"/>
  <xsl:with-param name="to" select="''"/>
</xsl:call-template>

to replace <b> by nothing.

I thought atom allowed XHTML to be embedded directly without it being
escaped like this?

David

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