Their product schema does not allow a <Value> to have subtags... That's why they use CDATA. And in my opinion that's not so bad since from a data point of view these html tags are pure a rendition thing.

But basically I see 2 options from the responses:

(1): Use cdata-sections attribute on <xsl:output> (2): make changes to the schema for all elements which may have html tags as children


I still see a problem with (1)... in the end when serializing to html I still want to disable-output-escaping so the browser will recognize <sub> and <sup> as tags instead of plain text... but then the greater then '>' will result in invalid xml.

	Martin Honnen
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