-- 
Bryan Rasmussen
the example(s) I gave you earlier should do this, there may be whitespace
stripping however. 

Quoting "Bradley, Peter" <PBradley@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> Oh, but what if we have:
> 
> <anElement>
> 	Some text <a>that means</a> absolutely <b>nothing</b> at all <a>to
> anyone</a> in <c>the world</c>
> </anElement>
> 
> The output I want is:
> 
> Some text that means absolutely <i>nothing</i> at all to anyone in the
> world
> 
> In other words I want all the text, but convert (in this example) all the <b>
> tags to html <i> tags.
> 
> Bummer
> 
> Peter
> 
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	Bradley, Peter  
> Sent:	08 November 2004 14:53
> To:	xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:	RE:  Conditional extraction of data
> 
> Aha!!
> 
> Peter
> 
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	Huditsch Roman [mailto:Roman.Huditsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent:	08 November 2004 14:52
> To:	xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:	AW:  Conditional extraction of data
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
> You can output the text of an element via <xsl:value-of select="text()"/>,
> since an elements text is held in an own text node.
> 
> So according to the given example 
> <xsl:value-of select="foo"/>
> should just output "this is the value of foo" 
> 
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Good luck for your exercises!
> 
> Wbr,
> Roman
> 
> 
> -----Urspr|ngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Bradley, Peter [mailto:PBradley@xxxxxxxxxx] 
> Gesendet: Montag, 8. November 2004 15:45
> An: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Betreff: RE:  Conditional extraction of data
> 
> Yeah.  This neatly sums up the problems I've been having.  An XPath
> expression always seems to return an entire sub-tree, and it seems to me that
> I just want a single node in this case.  Will xsl-copy give me that?
> 
> Peter
> 
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	Geert Josten [mailto:Geert.Josten@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent:	08 November 2004 14:42
> To:	xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:	Re:  Conditional extraction of data
> 
> M. David Peterson wrote:
> 
> > ooops!
> > 
> > This portion:
> > 
> > <xsl:value-of select="foo"/> will output: "this is the value of foo"
> > 
> > <xsl:value-of select="foo"/> will output a copy of all the text elements 
> > as well as the elements and there values that are descendants of foo. o
> > 
> > should have read...
> > 
> > <xsl:value-of select="foo"/> will output: "this is the value of foo"
> 
> Not true. xsl:value-of takes the first element from the node-set that results
> from the expression 
> "foo" and converts that to a string. As both sub elements <bar> and <p> are
> _inside_ element <foo>, 
> their textual content is returned as well.
> 
> The output is therefore: "
>     this is the value of foo
>     this is the value of bar.this is the value of a paragraph that is the
> child of bar
> "
> 
> (including new-lines when white-space is preserved)
> 
> > <xsl:copy-of select="foo"/> will output a copy of all the text elements >
> as well as the elements and there values that are descendants of foo.
> > 
> > Sorry for the confusion!
> > 
> > <M:D/>
> 
> Grtz,
> Geert
> 
> 
> 
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