galeskypy xsl pt

Using the xslt from the original question, a <;xsl:template match="text()"><;xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/><;/xsl:template> should do the trick.

<;xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><;![CDATA[<;]]><;/xsl:text>. This is because <; is illegal (and thats why your app is complaining). For >, you can use: <;xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"...

Then you can convert to upper case: <;xsl:value-of select="translate($toconvert,$lcletters,$ucletters)"/>.