I suspect your real requirement is not to process the second text node,
but to process all the text nodes. Use the standard:

<xsl:apply-templates/>

which will process all the child nodes, in turn. To do non-standard
processing of the text nodes, do, for example:

<xsl:template match="text()">
<span><xsl:value-of select="."/></span>
</xsl:template>

But usually you don't need to define a template rule for text nodes,
because the built-in rule copies the text node to the result tree, which
is usually what you want to happen.

Try to avoid using xsl:value-of when handling elements that may contain
child elements. It rarely does what you want. Use xsl:apply-templates
instead.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Spenser Kao
> Sent: 26 March 2003 23:05
> To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: 'Spenser Kao'
> Subject:  Picking up the 2nd part text after child element
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> If I have an element having text split into two parts with a 
> child element in between, how do I pick up the second part 
> text after the child element?
>  
> Please see attached files for xml instance, stylesheet and 
> test output. 
> 
> I expected to pick up the multiple parts of text and the 
> child element's text in the order they appear, but lost the 
> second part text after the child element. Any suggestion will 
> be appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Spenser
> 
> 1)  The xml instance file --
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?> 
> <paras> <p>First paragraph starts, <i>Italic text here</i>, 
> first paragraph ends.</p> 
> <p>Second paragraph starts, <i>Italic text here</i>, second 
> paragraph ends.</p> 
> </paras>
> 
> 2) The stylesheet file -
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
> 	xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> <xsl:output method="text"/>
> 
> <xsl:template match="/paras">
> <xsl:apply-templates select="p"/>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="p">
> 
> One para --
> <xsl:if test="text()">
> p: <xsl:value-of select="text()"/>
> </xsl:if>
> <xsl:if test="node()">
> 	<xsl:apply-templates select="i"/>
> </xsl:if>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="i">
> i: <xsl:value-of select="text()"/>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> 
> 3) The test output.
> One para --
> 
> p: First paragraph starts,
> i: Italic text here
> 
> One para --
> 
> p: Second paragraph starts,
> i: Italic text here 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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