> That's the correct output (according to Michael Kay's 2nd edition the
string value of an element is the string value of the
> element and all it's children concatenated). But I need to get the string
value WITHOUT the concatenation.

Use:

<xsl:apply-templates select="text()"/>


I am assuming that you have no template matching text nodes. In this case
the default rule will be instantiated and all text-node children of the
current node will be output.


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Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL




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