[Sab] gt entity bug?

[David Burry]

Hi, I'm relatively new to xslt and even newer to this list, so hope this is 
the right place...

Is there a good reason why this xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<tag>
this is a &lt;A HREF="/"&gt;test&lt;/A&gt;.
</tag>

plus this xsl:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="xml" encoding="ISO-8859-1"/>
<!-- nothing needed here, since default output is tag contents -->
<!-- we could also put a template here that contains one of    -->
<!-- value-of select="." or value-of select="text()"           -->
<!-- and we'd get the exact same results                       -->
</xsl:stylesheet>

produces this output:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
this is a &lt;A HREF="/">test&lt;/A>.

instead of this output:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
this is a &lt;A HREF="/"&gt;test&lt;/A&gt;.

?????

This kind of behavior is really messing up my HTML, making forms not 
function (i.e. not submit) in IE because of technically badly formatted 
default values, etc...

Dave