XSLT, problem with HTML

Question

Hi,
I am using XSLT to generate a webpage using an XML file and a stylesheet. The HTML page is created fine however any HTML tag i.e. the break line tag comes out in the file as &lt.;BR&gt.; rather then <.BR.> (ignore the dots, just there so the form doesnt show them incorrectly). Any suggestions? Here is my code:
XML FILE
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="yes"?><transcript xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="transcript-internal.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<section title="Outlook">
<question>question<BR></question>
<answer>answer</answer>
</section>
<disclaimer>disclaimer</disclaimer>
</transcript>
            TransformerFactory tFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
            File stypePathFile = new File(stylePath);
            if (!stypePathFile.exists())
                 logger.severe("cannot transform transcript..stylesheet does not exist at this path " + stylePath);
            StreamSource stylesource = new StreamSource(stypePathFile);
            Transformer transformer = tFactory.newTransformer(stylesource);
            transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "yes");
            transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.ENCODING, charEnc);
            transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.METHOD, "html");
            byte bytes[] = dataXML.getBytes();
            ByteArrayInputStream bais = new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes);
            StreamSource dataSource = new StreamSource(bais);
            StreamResult outputResult = new StreamResult(new File(outputPath));
            transformer.transform(dataSource, outputResult);
        } catch (TransformerConfigurationException tce) {
            // Error generated by the parser
            logger.severe("configuration error while transforming transcript: " + tce.getMessage());
        } catch (Exception e) {
            // Error generated by the parser
             logger.severe("error while transforming transcript: " + e.getMessage());
    }  The XML file is created using the following code:
import org.xml.sax.*;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.*;
public class TranscriptFilter extends XMLFilterImpl {
     public static final String SECTION_PREFIX = "+s:";
     public static final String QUESTION_PREFIX = "+q:";
     public static final String ANSWER_PREFIX = "+a:";
     public static final String DISCLAIMER_PREFIX = "+d:";
     public static final String IMAGE_PREFIX = "+i:";
     public static final String NARRATION_PREFIX = "+n:";
     public static final String PREFIX_REG_EXP = "(?m)(?=\\+[sqaidn]:)";
     public static final String TRANSCRIPT_TAG = "transcript";
     public static final String SECTION_TAG = "section";
     public static final String TITLE_TAG = "title";
     public static final String NARRATION_TAG = "narration";
     public static final String QUESTION_TAG = "question";     
     public static final String ANSWER_TAG = "answer";
     public static final String DISCLAIMER_TAG = "disclaimer";
     public static final String IMAGE_TAG = "image";
     public static final String URL_TAG = "url";          
     // schema validation tags
     public static final String SCHEMA_LOCATION_TAG = "xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation";
     public static final String SCHEMA_LOCATION_VALUE = "transcript-internal.xsd";     
     public static final String SCHEMA_INSTANCE_TAG = "xmlns:xsi";
     public static final String SCHEMA_INSTANCE_VALUE = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
     private boolean inSection = false; // is section tag open but not closed
     public void parse(String pText) throws SAXException {
          String text = pText;
          String line = null;
          String prefix = null;
          if (text != null) {
               String[] elements = text.split(PREFIX_REG_EXP);
               if (elements != null) {
                    AttributesImpl mainAtts = new AttributesImpl();
                    mainAtts.addAttribute("", SCHEMA_LOCATION_TAG, SCHEMA_LOCATION_TAG, null, SCHEMA_LOCATION_VALUE);                    
                    mainAtts.addAttribute("", SCHEMA_INSTANCE_TAG, SCHEMA_INSTANCE_TAG, null, SCHEMA_INSTANCE_VALUE);
                    startElement("", TRANSCRIPT_TAG, TRANSCRIPT_TAG, mainAtts);
                    for (int i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) {
                         if (elements[i] != null)
                              line = elements.trim();
                              if (line.length() > 3) {
                                   // return prefix to determine line data type
                                   prefix = getPrefix(line);
                                   line = removePrefix(line);
                                   if (prefix != null) {
                                        if (prefix.equalsIgnoreCase(SECTION_PREFIX)) {
                                             closeSection(); // close section if open
                                             AttributesImpl fieldAtts = new AttributesImpl();
                                             fieldAtts.addAttribute("", TITLE_TAG, TITLE_TAG, null, line);
                                             startElement("", SECTION_TAG, SECTION_TAG, fieldAtts);
                                             inSection = true;
                                        else if (prefix.equalsIgnoreCase(NARRATION_PREFIX)) {
                                             startElement("", NARRATION_TAG, NARRATION_TAG, new AttributesImpl());
                                             characters(line);
                                             endElement("", NARRATION_TAG, NARRATION_TAG);
                                        else if (prefix.equalsIgnoreCase(IMAGE_PREFIX)) {
                                             AttributesImpl fieldAtts = new AttributesImpl();
                                             fieldAtts.addAttribute("", URL_TAG, URL_TAG, null, line);
                                             startElement("", IMAGE_TAG, IMAGE_TAG, fieldAtts);
                                             endElement("", IMAGE_TAG, IMAGE_TAG);
                                        else if (prefix.equalsIgnoreCase(QUESTION_PREFIX)) {
                                             startElement("", QUESTION_TAG, QUESTION_TAG, new AttributesImpl());
                                             characters(line);
                                             endElement("", QUESTION_TAG, QUESTION_TAG);
                                        else if (prefix.equalsIgnoreCase(ANSWER_PREFIX)) {
                                             startElement("", ANSWER_TAG, ANSWER_TAG, new AttributesImpl());
                                             characters(line);
                                             endElement("", ANSWER_TAG, ANSWER_TAG);
                                        else if (prefix.equalsIgnoreCase(DISCLAIMER_PREFIX)) {
                                             closeSection(); // close section if open
                                             startElement("", DISCLAIMER_TAG, DISCLAIMER_TAG, new AttributesImpl());
                                             characters(line);
                                             endElement("", DISCLAIMER_TAG, DISCLAIMER_TAG);
                    closeSection(); // close section if open
                    endElement("", TRANSCRIPT_TAG, TRANSCRIPT_TAG);
     // closes the section tag if open
     private void closeSection() throws SAXException {
          if (inSection)
               endElement("", SECTION_TAG, SECTION_TAG);
          inSection = false;
     // overrides super class method
     private void characters(String pLine) throws SAXException {
          if (pLine != null) {
               char[] chars = pLine.toCharArray();
               super.characters(chars, 0, chars.length);
     // returns the prefix for a line
     private String getPrefix(String pLine) {
          String line = pLine;
          String prefix = null;
          if (validLine(line))
               prefix = line.substring(0,3);
          return prefix;
     private String removePrefix(String pLine) {
          String line = pLine;
          String newLine = "";
          if (validLine(line))
               newLine = line.substring(3, line.length()).trim();
          return newLine;
     private boolean validLine(String pLine) {
          if (pLine != null && pLine.length() > 3)
               return true;
          else
               return false;

Answer 1

Your 1,000 lines of code were indented so deeply that they scrolled off the right side of my screen and were extremely inconvenient to read. So I didn't read it.
However. Your question claimed to be about XSLT but I didn't see any XSLT posted. That was sort of strange. Anyway, if you are generating character strings containing <BR> then what you see is what you have to expect. If you want a <BR> element then generate a <BR> element. Like the one you see in the XML example you posted. (What was the relevance of that example, anyway? I didn't get that either. Was it supposed to represent the input you hoped that code was generating, or something?)