>> Yes, use 2 passes, it will help you diagnose problems in the 2nd pass
>> much more easily.
>>
>> The first pass is an idenity transform with:
>>
>> <xsl:template match="title">
>>  <xsl:for-each select="tokenize(., '||')>
>>    <title><xsl:value-of select="."/></title>
>
> I felt that wasn't an appropriate approach because it would lose the rich
> emphasis markup in the stringification done by tokenize().

me too had I paid more attention...   :)


> I hope the code below helps.
>


yeah that was pretty much what I was about to post (promise ;)




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