&lt &gt Problem...Ignoring specific characters like > in the XML

I am a beginner level in xml..my output page does not convert &gt &lt it shows something like this
" <b>Location.</b><br /> <UL><LI>Park Central New York " can anyone help?
here is my code

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
 
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
 
<xsl:template match="/">
 
    <html>

    <head>

        <style>
 
            body

                {

                font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

                font-size: 12px;

                font-style: normal;

                font-weight: normal;

                text-decoration: none;            

                }
 
        </style>

        <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
 
        /*            

         This is the function which toggles the display of required blocks 

        */
 
        function showHide(hotelId)

        {

            items=document.getElementsByName("hotelDtl");

            // alert(items.length) 

            for(var i = 0 ; i &lt; items.length ; i++)

            {    

                items[i].style.display ="none";

            }                

            document.getElementById("td_"+hotelId).style.display ="";
 
        }
 
        /*            

         This is the function which hides all the main blocks containing hotel information on page load

        */
 
        function hideAll()

        {

            items=document.getElementsByName("hotelDtl");
 
             for(var i = 0 ; i &lt; items.length ; i++){

                items[i].style.display ="none";

             }    

        }
 
        </script>

    </head>

      <body onload="hideAll();"> 
 
<table width="70%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1">

  <tr>

    <td align="center"><b>Assignment for XSLT with ASP for rendering the XML file </b></td>

  </tr>

  <tr>

    <td></td>

  </tr>

  <tr>

    <td>
 
            <table width="80%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1">

              <tr>

                <td width="20%">Choose Hotel : </td>

                <td>

                       <!-- Populate the hotel names in a select box 

                       OnChange event of this, there is a call given to a Javascript function

                       This function handles, which block to show and which ones to hide

                       This is achived using the HTML element attributes like name and Id

                       The inbuilt javascript function getElementById is used to select the element which needs to be displayed

                       The inbuilt javascript function getElementsByName is used to select the elements which needs to be hidden

                       -->

                       <select id="hotelName" name="hotelName" onchange="return showHide(this.value);">

                                <option value="">--Select Hotel--</option>
 
                                <xsl:for-each select="HotelAvailabilityListResults/Hotel">

                                    <option value="{hotelId}">

                                        <xsl:attribute name="id">

                                                <xsl:value-of select='hotelId'/>                                    
 
                                        </xsl:attribute>

                                             <xsl:value-of select="name"/>     
 
                                    </option>

                                </xsl:for-each>

                        </select>

                </td>

              </tr>

            </table>    

    </td>

  </tr>

  <tr>

    <td height="10"></td>

  </tr>

  <tr>

    <td>

            <table width="80%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1">

                <tr>

                  <td>The information of the hotel chosen is shownhere : </td>

                </tr>

            </table>

      </td>

  </tr>

  <tr>

    <td height="10"></td>

  </tr>

  <tr>

    <td>

                    <table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%">

                              <xsl:for-each select="HotelAvailabilityListResults/Hotel">

                                <tr name="hotelDtl" style="display:none">

                                    <xsl:attribute name="id">

                                    <xsl:text>td_</xsl:text>

                                            <xsl:value-of select='hotelId'/>

                                    </xsl:attribute>                        

                                          <td>                                            
 
                                                    <table width="80%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#CCCCCC">

                                                                  <tr>

                                                                    <td width="40%" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">Hotel Name </td>

                                                                    <td align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><xsl:value-of select='name'/></td>

                                                                  </tr>

                                                                  <tr>

                                                                    <td align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">Address</td>

                                                                    <td align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">

                                                                        <xsl:value-of select="address1"/> 

                                                                        <br />

                                                                        <xsl:value-of select="address2"/>

                                                                        <br />

                                                                        <xsl:value-of select="address3"/>

                                                                        <br />                                                                        

                                                                        <xsl:value-of select="city"/> - <xsl:value-of select="10019"/>

                                                                        <br />

                                                                        <xsl:value-of select="stateProvince"/>

                                                                        <br />

                                                                        <xsl:value-of select="country"/>

                                                                        <br />

                                                                    </td>

                                                                  </tr>

                                                                  <tr>

                                                                    <td align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">Description</td>

                                                                    <td align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">

                                                                        <xsl:value-of select="shortDescription" disable-output-escaping="no"/>

                                                                    </td>

                                                                  </tr>

                                                                  <tr>

                                                                    <td align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">Rate Information </td>

                                                                    <td align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">

                                                                            <table border="0" align="left" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#CCCCCC">

                                                                              <tr>

                                                                                <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF">Low</td>

                                                                                <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF">$ <xsl:value-of select="lowRate"/> </td>

                                                                              </tr>
 
                                                                              <tr>

                                                                                <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF">High</td>

                                                                                <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF">$ <xsl:value-of select="highRate"/></td>

                                                                              </tr>

                                                                            </table>

                                                                    </td>

                                                                  </tr>                                                                 

                                                    </table>
 
                                          </td>                                 

                                </tr>                    

                              </xsl:for-each>

                    </table>
 
    </td>

  </tr>    
 
  <tr>

    <td align="center"> </td>

  </tr>  

</table>    

  </body>

  </html>

</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

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Without the source, I'm not sure what you're specifically looking at, but trying using the disable-output-escaping attribute with element <xsl:value-of>.

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