If you are using output method=html, and the Javascript is inside a <script>
element, then the < should not be escaped. Either (a) it's not in a script
element, or (b) your XSLT processor is getting it wrong (which is not
uncommon).

Regards,

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anil Kumar Veeramalli [mailto:anil.v@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 17 December 2009 08:08
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  special characters in XSL
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am using XSL 1.0 version of XSL. my output type is HTML.
> 
> <![CDATA[for (var i=0;i<12;i++ ){
>                         if(aMonths[i] == mon.toUpperCase()){
>                             return i;
>                         }
>                     }
>  ]]>
> 
> my output is showing as    for (var i=0;i&lt;12;i++ ){.
> '<' symbol is  replaced with  '&lt', so for loop in 
> JavaScript is not executing.
> 
> Please help me on this.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Anil