Hi Greg,
If I put your example into a xml document, say

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<doc>
&lt;myXmlElementName&gt;myXmlElementText&lt;/myXmlElementName&gt;
</doc>

then its perfectly valid and the  &lt and &gt get
resolved by the parser. For the xls stylesheet its
identical to:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<doc>
<myXmlElementName>myXmlElementText</myXmlElementName>
</doc>
so where is the need to translate?
Regards Manfred

On 27/11/05, floatingisland@xxxxxxx <floatingisland@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thank for the response, Mr. Kay. Sorry, I didn't format my original
>  e-mail properly, so that's not really the question I intended to ask.
>  Let me try to re-state my original question once more as follows:
>
>  Using the XSLT translate function, is there a way to change
>  &lt; to < and &gt; to >. I have an XML document, saved out
>  of Microsoft InfoPath, which changes the XML tags pasted into
>  a text box into a text string of (for example)
>
>  &lt;myXmlElementName&gt;myXmlElementText&lt;/myXmlElementName&gt;
>  instead of <myXmlElementName>myXmlElementText</myXmlElementName>
>
>  I'm using Apache Cocoon Version 2.0.3.
>  This is the translate function that I'm using:
>  <xsl:value-of select="translate(//myXmlElementName, '<', '<')" />
>  <xsl:value-of select="translate(//myXmlElementName, '>', '>')" />
>
>  This is part of the error message that Cocoon generates:
>
>  The value of attribute "select" must not contain the '<' character.
>   org.apache.cocoon.ProcessingException: Exception in creating Transform
> Handler:
>   org.xml.sax.: SAXParseException: The value of attribute "select" must
> not contain the "<" character.
>
>  Any ideas?
>
>  Thanks,
>
>  Greg