Thinking about it for another three microseconds, Jim (I only noticed
the message was from you after hitting send), there is also the David
Carlisle solution: grep/sed/awk. Not to be sneered at, my only problem
is I can never remember the syntax.

Michael Kay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Melton
> Sent: 03 July 2003 21:28
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: jim.melton@xxxxxxx
> Subject:  Using XSLT to add markup to a document
> 
> 
> Gentlepeople,
> 
> I'm struggling with a problem that I fear isn't easily solved 
> with XSLT, 
> but there are many experts on this list who might be able to 
> help.  The 
> brief summary of my problem is that I want to find certain words that 
> appear in paragraphs throughout a very large (XML) document 
> and mark up 
> those words without making any other changes to my document.
> 
> For example, consider a document with the following fragment:
> 
> <para>
> This is a sample document that deals with markup of 
> <emph>text</emph>. </para> <para> When one applies 
> <emph>markup</emph> to a large document, one is faced with 
> a <def>time-consuming</def> effort.
> </para>
> 
> If one of the words to which I wish to apply markup is 
> "markup" and another 
> is "document", then I would want the result to be something like this:
> 
> <para>
> This is a sample <special>document</special> that deals with 
> <special>markup</special> of <emph>text</emph>.
> </para>
> <para>
> When one applies <emph><special>markup</special></emph> to a large 
> <special>document</special>, one is faced with a 
> <def>time-consuming</def> 
> effort.
> </para>
> 
> As you see from this example, I want to *add* markup to the 
> words I have 
> found where they appear in my result tree, but copy 
> everything else in my 
> document to the output tree unchanged.
> 
> I tend to use Saxon (currently using 6.5.2) as my primary 
> XSLT engine, but 
> I also have Microsoft's MSXML 4.0 (and could undoubtedly find 
> others if 
> required to do so).
> 
> Any guidance or advice?
> 
> Many thanks,
>     Jim 
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