Hi Alan,

> can anyone shed any light on the following? I want to exclude part of 
> my xml content-specifically i want to exclude the text between the 
> opening and closing <message> tags.
> I want to format the page to display message titles as html anchor 
> tags, and exclude the message body.

[code examples removed]

If I understand you correct, then simply remove the xsl:apply-templates
call at the end in <xsl:template match="message">

Cheers,
Oliver


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