Try:

<xsl:template match="runmode[@name='debug']">
    start:
       <xsl:copy-of select="node()"/>
    end:
</xsl:template>

The description of xsl:copy-of is notoriously misplaced in the spec, I think
it was originally designed to do a much more specialised job and then
generalised later, so it's not surprising you failed to spot it. 

Mike Kay

> In my XML document, I have the following:
>     <runmode name="debug">
>         <any_element>
>                 <sub_element/>
>                 <sub_element/>
>            </any_element>
>      </runmode>
> 
> I would like my XSL stylesheet to output the entire text of 
> the runmode
> element, so it may look like the following:
> <xsl:template match="runmode[@name='debug']">
>     start:
>         <!-- This is where I would like to output the text 
> elements -->
>     end:
> </xsl:template>
> 
> and my output document would contain:
> 
> start:
>     <any_element>
>         <sub_element/>
>         <sub_element/>
>     </any_element>
> end:




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