xslt text transformation and special characters

[jolla]

I transform an XML document to text. Sometimes it has for example < in the text wich arrives as <
But I want to keep this as < in the text output.
If I do nothing it comes out as <.
If I try to change it to &lt; it comes out as that.

[adrian]

Hi,

You can control the output from the XSL.
If you use <xsl:output method="xml"/> you will get '<', otherwise, if it's "text", you'll get the actual character, '<'.

If you want < no matter what, you can use a character map.

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    <xsl:output method="text" use-character-maps="mymap"/>

    <xsl:character-map name="mymap">

        <xsl:output-character character="<" string="&lt;"/>

    </xsl:character-map>

Regards,
Adrian