Hi,

> An extra requirement then came up - I wanted to change this 
> line so that it
> only matched on text nodes that didn't have a <font> element 
> as an ancestor.
> The following line is my current attempt to do this:
> 
>   <xsl:template match="xhtml:body//text()[not(ancestor::font)]">

You forgot the namespace prefix from the font element, i.e. use

  <xsl:template match="xhtml:body//text()[not(ancestor::xhtml:font)]">

Santtu

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