> figure out how to select just the text of a node without including that
> node's children. Microsoft provides a text() method to accomplish this, can
> anyone help me with an alternative that will work with Xalan? Thanks.

  <xsl:apply-templates select="text()"/>

should do what you want.

 Steve


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