Hi,

How do i output the symbol '>' or '<' ?
i've tried <xsl:text> > </xsl:text> but saxon complies about it
when i put &gt; it outputs &gt;

What method do you declare in xsl:output, if any?
If it's text then it should output the literal character rather than an entity. If xml, html or nothing then for XML it has to be the entity, for HTML I believe it is allowed to choose either.
Show your XML and XSLT if necessary.

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

XSLT outputs a result tree, it doesn't output symbols. You need to describe your required output in terms of a tree containing elements, attributes, and text nodes. If you want one of the attributes or text nodes to have a "<" character in it, then you can achieve this using <xsl:text>&lt;</xsl:text>; when you serialize this to XML, it will necessarily be escaped as &lt;.

If you want to produce a "<" character as part of the markup, then you've got things wrong: you should be producing element nodes, not tags.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference