Change the second rule to:

<!-ELEMENTS B and I-->
<xsl:template match="b|i">
  <xsl:text>[</xsl:text>
  <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
  <xsl:text>]</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>

Derek

Edierley Messias wrote:

> Hi People,
>
> I need to replace
> all <b>  and <i>  with "[" , and
> all </b> and </i> with "]"
> in a XML file.
>
> Everything was fine with the xsl below,
> but when I have a <b><i>text</i></b> sequence
> the result is:
>
>   [<i>text</i>]
>
> And I need:
>
>   [[text]]
>
> Do you have some ideia to look inside the match and apply the template
> again?
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> XSL used:
>
> <!--MAIN TEMPLATE-->
> <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
>   <xsl:copy>
>     <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
>   </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <!-ELEMENTS B and I-->
> <xsl:template match="b|i">
>   <xsl:text>[</xsl:text>
>   <xsl:copy-of select="@*|node()"/>
>   <xsl:text>]</xsl:text>
> </xsl:template>
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>
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