Conal Tuohy wrote:
> <xsl:value-of select="text()"/> will return the text of the 
> parent element, without including the text of the <child> 
> element.

The select identifies the node-set consisting of those text
nodes, yes, but using value-of on a node-set will result in
the use of the string-value of just the first node in the
set.

Mike

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