> So, what I want to do is be able to have a template that matches a
> table element if it has a descendant text node containign a given
> string.

depending quite waht you want


match="table[.//text()[contains(.,'widget')]] "

or

match="table[.//text()[.='widget']] "

or


match="table[.//td[.='widget']] "

or


match="table[contains(.,'widget')] "

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