> right? 
Right. What did i say...I check sent mail....
ah so I got _both_ wrong.
<xsl:value-of select="foo"/> generates a text node with value "one two"
should, as you say, be "onetwo" (actually it was right when I wrote it,
I changed the input example before sending:-) but then my description of
the <xsl:value-of select="foo/text()"/>  was also wrong, as described in
another thread.  I give up.

David