>  I want to put markup in the attribute but that is illegal
>  viz.
> 
>  xml:
>  John <alt executive="is creating" other="has created"
>  another="<i>will</i> create"/>
> 
>  I like the idea of putting these alt(ernates) in attributes
>  rather than as tags cause it is much easier to maintain and much
>  more readable in the xml but - I am asking for too much in the
>  request above, it seems.

No, that's not possible. The only thing is using &gt; and &lt; and
disable-output-escaping, but I'd strictly avoid this!! Furthermore the XML
is not more readable then.

Joerg


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