Thanks for the response.

I discovered the copy-of solution before seeing your message, but it's good to 
see some reinforcement of the method. <grins>

I'll also be trying out your other suggestions.  

Thanks again.

Shawn

On Sunday 21 November 2004 13:35, J.Pietschmann wrote:

> Check you favorite XSLT book, one of the online tutorials or
> the spec for details of xsl:value-of ann xsl:copy-of (and preferably
> xsl:copy too) in order to notice the difference.
>
> J.Pietschmann