Thank you, copy-of really did help.

Kai

> 
>   IC, but how do I use that rtf later in my context?
> 
> as I said in my original reply, use copy-of not value-of.
> value-of always generates a string, and the string value of the nodes
> that you showed is empty.
> 
> David
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