What about

<xsl:template match="para">
  <xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>

?
Wendell (spamming the list today)

At 03:55 PM 1/17/00 -0800, you wrote:
>try this:
>
><xsl:template match="para">
>		<xsl:copy-of select="*|text()"/>
></xsl:template>
>
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>On Behalf Of sara.mitchell@xxxxxxxxx
>Sent:	Monday, January 17, 2000 1:20 PM
>To:	xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject:	Getting text out of mixed content
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>
>My apologies up front -- I know this issue has been discussed
>but my searches in the XSL archives haven't succeeded and, as
>someone else recently posted, I swallowed a dumb pill today.
>
>I'm struggling to extract only the text out of a paragraph
>which allows mixed content. There may be several levels of
>descendant elements. With a first para such as:
>
><para>This is the beginning of <field>Field A</field> which you
>can use to start the process. </para>
>
>All I get in the output is:
>
>This is the beginning of Field A
>
>The template I'm using so far does find the first text children
>and the text inside the first element node, but it stops there.
>I'm obviously missing something fundamental and am hoping that
>someone can point out my errors.
>
>The template I'm using now is:
>
><xsl:template match="para[1]">
><xsl:for-each select="descendant-or-self::*>
> <xsl:value-of select="text()"/>
></xsl:for-each>
></xsl:template>
>
>I'm using LotusXSL (0.18.2) as my XSL processor.
>
>Sara
>
>
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