Format HTML not working

Question

I have HTML formatted data stored in VARCHAR2 columns on the database for which I am using a stylesheet to format into XSL-FO to resolve the HTML tags. For example, my data template populates a field PARAGRAPH_TEXT with content such as
<b>some bold text</b>
and I am using
<xsl:apply-templates select="PARAGRAPH_TEXT"/>
in my RTF template to process the data using the stylesheet to convert it to
<fo:inline font-weight="bold">some bold text</fo:inline>.
The HTML tags are corrrectly resolved using the BI Publisher Word add-in and the output is correctly rendered in bold text but this does not happen when running on the server in an E-Business Suite environment due to HTML tags in the output XML being generated as &lt;b&gt; instead of <b>. Has anybody experienced this and, more importantly, can anybody suggest a way of getting <b> in the XML instead of &lt;b&gt;.

Answer 1

Sorry, I should have used the code tags. Let me ask that again.
I have HTML formatted data stored in VARCHAR2 columns on the database for which I am using a stylesheet to format into XSL-FO to resolve the HTML tags. For example, my data template populates a field PARAGRAPH_TEXT with content such as
<b>some bold text</b>and I am using
<xsl:apply-templates select="PARAGRAPH_TEXT"/>in my RTF template to process the data using the stylesheet to convert it to
<fo:inline font-weight="bold">some bold text</fo:inline>The HTML tags are corrrectly resolved when using the BI Publisher Word add-in and the output is correctly rendered in bold text but this does not happen when running on the server in an E-Business Suite environment due to the HTML tags in the output XML being generated as e.g. &lt;b&gt; instead of <b>. Has anybody experienced this and, more importantly, can anybody suggest a way of getting e.g. <b> in the XML instead of &lt;b&gt;