Hi Lisa,

> This solved my problem for the hyphenated words, but where ever
> there were other tags in the string, I lost my spaces.
> How can I fix this?

Don't normalise the text nodes ;) Get rid of the normalising template
that I suggested (sorry):

<xsl:template match="text()">
  <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space()" />
</xsl:template>

and instead have a template that only matches text nodes that
immediately follow a lb element:

<xsl:template match="text()[preceding-sibling::*[1][self::lb]">
  ...
</xsl:template>

I don't know whether all these text nodes start with a new line? If
so, then you could just remove that first new line character:

<xsl:template match="text()[preceding-sibling::*[1][self::lb]">
  <xsl:value-of select="substring(., 2)" />
</xsl:template>

Otherwise, you need to test whether the first character is a
whitespace character, in which case you want to ignore it (otherwise
you just give the value of the text node):

<xsl:template match="text()[preceding-sibling::*[1][self::lb]">
  <xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="contains(' &#xA;&#x9;&#xD;', substring(., 1, 1))">
      <xsl:value-of select="substring(., 2)" />
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>
      <xsl:value-of select="." />
    </xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

Cheers,

Jeni

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