> Interesting...
> 
> If I understand you correctly, you've utilized an identity 
> template. Very
> cool. Unfortunately, and I did not specify this in my 
> original post, the
> structure of the XML document is about half narrative-like and half
> data-like. The identity template would be too broad to address it.
> 


Then you can either use a special mode for the identity template, or you can
constrain it to apply only within a paragraph by specifying

match="paragraph//*"

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/