Use
<xsl:value-of select="group/text()"/>

It should return "abc"

Ritu

----- Original Message -----
From: "Todd Binder" <todd_binder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 3:33 PM
Subject:  text values of nodes


>
> I have some XML (unfortunately I did not generate it, else I would have
> created it in a manner that was easier to transform) that is extremely
> nested, and am having problems extracting elements of it vis XSL
>
> can I grab just the group value (abc)?
>
> when I try to grab <xsl:value-of select="group"/> I get back all the
values
> contained within the entire GROUP node (abc 8873 X32 20020430 C 6 P)
>
> is there a way to work with this poorly formed XML?
>
>
> <group>abc
>     <key>8873
>         <idcode>X32
>             <date>20020430
>                 <rectype>C
>                     <IST>6</IST>
>                     <PRIMISS>P</PRIMISS>
>                 </rectype>
>             </date>
>         </idcode>
>     </key>
> </group>
>
> Todd Binder
> todd_binder@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
>
>
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