XML "<" character?

Hi
I have the following node in a xml doc:

<message>when the amount is < 1000 bla bla bla </message>

My question is: how can I display the text of the message tag, seeing that the "<" char is invalid in the xml doc.

or is it possible to include "<br>" in my xml doc so that when I write the contents of a large noge with xsl to html, there would be a break??

1) &lt;
2) <br />

It doesnt seem to work. If I put &lt; into the text of my node and render it with my xsl , all I see is "when the amount is lt; 1000 bla bla bla "

when i put <br /> into my xml file, all I see is "when the amount is 1000 bla bla bla "
???

You need to use the 'disable-output-escaping' attribute to render the output correctly:

Code:

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        <xsl:template match="MESSAGE">
                <xsl:value-of select="." disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
        </xsl:template>

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