XSL transform escape question

I am processing an xml file with html tags in it. When I do the transform 
(using the transform method with the SAX parser) it is translating the < to &lt 
and > to &gt. I just want the < to remain as a < and not have the conversion 
take place. I tried doing the following but it is not working either...within 
the "answer" tags in the xml file there are tags which make up a table in html 
( ie: <TR><TD> </TD></TR> etc)

<xsl:value-of select="answer" disable-output-escaping="yes"/> 


Any ideas on how to do this?
Thanks!

Rick Holmberg
Motorola SPS IT e-Business Development

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