If your emphasis node is treated differently based upon it's parent,
simply create a match for each type:

<xsl:template match="emphasis[parent::a]">
  Perform a/emphasis formatting...
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="emphasis[parent::b]">
  Perform b/emphasis formatting...
</xsl:template>


Thanks!
Angela

-----Original Message-----
From: Luke Jones [mailto:ljones@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 11:29 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Print parent text

I did it this way because emphasis nodes as well as para nodes show up
as children to many different parents and need to be handled in
different ways.

Thanks!