>  I think it has
>   to merge all the text in 'etp' before the 'nvgs' element in
>   one single text node.
>
>   Can someone confirm this?

It should do this, but certainly some releases of some xslt engines have
been known to get this wrong. especially if the input is built from a
W3C DOM node, which does allow adjacent text nodes.

Try adding just as a test

<xsl:for-each select="text()">
  text: <xsl:value-of select="position()"/> [<xsl:value-of select="."/>]
</xsl:for-each>

Then you find out how many text nodes your system thinks you have, and
what they each contain.

David


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