select="*" selects the element children only, you want select="node()" which
also selects the text nodes.

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Spencer Tickner [mailto:spencertickner@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 27 February 2006 18:26
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  selecting not(node()) not working as I expect it to
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> For some reason (Monday perhaps) I'm having a very difficult time with
> a very simple concept. I'm simply trying to apply all templates except
> a node and then apply that node and it's children. I've done this
> before with no issue,, now, well I'm having issues.
> 
> xml
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <root>
> 				<para>This is a paragraph</para>
> 				<para>This is a paragraph
> 					<list mark="bull">
> 						<listitem>This 
> is a list</listitem>
> 						<listitem>This 
> is a list</listitem>
> 					</list></para>
> 				<para>This is another paragraph</para>
> </root>
> 
> xsl
> 
> <?xml version='1.0'?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> 
> <xsl:template match="/">
> 	<xsl:apply-templates/>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="para">
> 	<p><xsl:apply-templates select="*[not(self::list)]"/></p>
> 	<xsl:apply-templates select="list"/>
> </xsl:template>
> <xsl:template match="para/text()">
> 	<xsl:value-of select="."/>
> </xsl:template>
> <xsl:template match="list">
> <ul>
> 	<xsl:apply-templates/>
> </ul>
> </xsl:template>
> <xsl:template match="listitem">
> <li><xsl:apply-templates/></li>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> expected output
> 
> <p>This is a paragraph</p>
> <p>This is a paragraph</p>
> <ul>
>   <li>This is a list</li>
>   <li>This is a list</li>
> </ul>
> <p>This is another paragraph</p>
> 
> what I'm getting
> 
> 				<p/>
> 				<p/><ul>
> 						<li>This is a list</li>
> 						<li>This is a list</li>
> 					</ul>
> 				<p/>
> 
> any thoughts?