I'm not sure what result you want.

If you want:
"This book Lord of the rings is often misquoted."

then you can just get it as the string-value of the <book> element.

i.e., with <book> as the context node, it is string(.).

If you want

"This book is often misquoted."

then it's best to use template rules - these are always a good idea when
handling mixed content.

<xsl:variable name="top-level-text">
  <xsl:apply-templates select="text()"/>
</xsl:variable>

Michael Kay
Software AG
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Peter Lavender
> Sent: 24 September 2002 14:27
> To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  How do I capture the text "around" a node?
> 
> 
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I'm beating my head against a wall here, and haven't been 
> able to work out how to capture the text around a node.
> 
> Here is the snippet of xml:
> 
> <book isbn="88888">
> This book <title>Lord of the rings</title> is often misquoted.
> 
> ...
> 
> </book>
> 
> Now I have tried to work out how, but failed miserably and 
> would appreciate some help, or even better an explaination as 
> to why/how to do this.
> 
> Here is my attempt to do it:
> 
> <xsl:template match="book">
>       
> 	<fo:block font-size="12pt" font-family="serif" 
> line-height="16pt">
>             
> <xsl:variable name="txtFirst" select='substring-before( 
> /book/text(), "(" )' />
>             <xsl:value-of select="$txtFirst" />
>             <xsl:value-of select="title" />
>             <xsl:text>After this is something:</xsl:text>
>             <xsl:value-of select="/child::title/child::text()" />
>   
>      </fo:block>
>         
> </xsl:template>
> 
> When I do just variable name="txt" select="text()" i only get 
> all text up to the title tag.  How can I get the text after 
> the title node?
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Pete.
> 
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