I have encoded html in a field in my database. In this case the forum my query is

Select Top 1 Subject, Body from Forum_Posts where ParentPostID = 0
order by CreatedDate desc

The purpose is to display the most recent entry in the forum.

I used the following two

Html Template

[Body]

and XSL

<stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"><output method="text" version="4.0" indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/><template match="DocumentElement/QueryResults"><value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="Body"/></template></stylesheet>

 Both result with encoded html being output to the browser which results in the rendered text containg markup IE <BR> actually appears in the text instead of a new line.

Any suggestion on how to Deencode the HTML before it is sent to the browser?

I had a very similar issue - HTML coming back from the database that I wanted to write onto a page of my bespoke control in V4.5.3 of DNN.  I solved it by placing a <span id="spnHTML" runat="server"> on the control and using the following code in the code behind where HTMLFromDatabase is whatever you want to write back...

CType(e.Item.FindControl("spnHTML"), HtmlContainerControl).InnerHtml = Server.HtmlDecode(HTMLFromDatabase)

Kevin