Mac Forum / Applications / Word / September 2006

I have a Rich text editor which works fine, when someone is done with
the online editing they can download what they typed into a word
document.  The RTE is using <span> and <div> tags and I cannot change
it, valid html though, example:

<div style="text-align: center;">
CENTER</div>

This is what appears in word and on an html page (instead of actually
centering CENTER) but beneath the scenes; the code reads:

&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;<br>
CENTER&lt;/div&gt;

&lt = <
&quot = "
&gt = >

Why is this happening???  Anyone run into something similiar?  Thanks