the result of:
if( stMarcador == "--START-VALUE--" )
Is
if( stMarcador == "- -START-VALUE- -" )
This is because "--" is not allowed to appear in an XML comment, and
putting a space in is the recommended recovery action.
I'm not quite sure what to suggest you should do about it, though!
Not relevant to your problem, but you shouldn't be using
disable-output-escaping. Presumably if you have chosen method="xml", you
want the XML to be well formed, and your use of d-o-e might create
ill-formed XML.
Michael Kay
Software AG
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