formatted text as variable

My variables that I want to insert into an Oo document are generated by some complicated process and would need to include some formatting.

Is it possible to insert formatted text into an Oo document (by eg. inserting actual oo xml into the file)?
eg. I would like to insert this as one variable:
plaintext <b>boldtext<b> plaintext

Thanks for the help.
SWK

Hello,

It's not's possible to put XML tag, because there are converted to html equivalent. But you can you some tbs tags to have bold like....

I've place <b> and </b> but you don't have to write them, you just have to select in OpenOffice the code : [var.foo;if [val]='x';then [val]] and make in bold

You can also use conditional blocks

Olivier

why would TBS want to convert XML tags to html?
this doesn't sound logical to me, is there a simple way to prevent that (I am only using TBS for Oo)?

thx
SWK

I commented out TBSOo lines 257 and 258 and now it seems to work.
I am using UTF-8. Did I mess up something that will pop up later?

//$string_encode = str_replace('<'   ,'&lt;',  $string_encode);
//$string_encode = str_replace('>'   ,'&gt;',  $string_encode);

thx
SWK