xslt problem

[gareth7]

I've a problem with trying to output special characters with cold fusion and xsl.

All the xsl forums I've seen say to use the following code to output the "<" character:
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;</xsl:text>

But cold fusion is giving me the following error:javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException: javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The content beginning "<<" is not legal markup. Perhaps the "<" (&#3c character should be a letter.

Does anyone have any suggestions?
Does the cold fusion xsl transformer not support the full specification?

Thanks

 

[webmigit]

have you tried surrounding it with spaces?
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"> &lt; </xsl:text>

just to see what happens?

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[gareth7]

I tried adding spaces and get the following error message:

A [Transformer] object cannot be created that satisfies the configuration requested. This could be due to a failure in compiling the [XSL] text. javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException: javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The content beginning "< " is not legal markup. Perhaps the " " () character should be a letter.

I was short on time, so just re-wrote the whole thing using cold fusion. This was the first time I've tried using xslt - I haven't been that impressed with it. I don't know if I'll use xslt again.