Heppa,

> Any ideas about how to check if the element content begins, lets say
> with characters RE:? If it does not begin RE: -> add these characters
> in the beginning. If it does begin with these characters -> do 
> nothing, but insert the value of the element?

You can't "add these characters in the beginning", you can just output "RE:" followed by the the original string.

  <xsl:if test="not(starts-with(., 'RE:'))">RE:</xsl:if>
  <xsl:value-of select="." />

Cheers,

Santtu


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