Nice. I modified it slightly for the more complex structure of the
actual XML, but you essentially solved it.

Thanks
Jostein

2009/10/21 Syd Bauman <Syd_Bauman@xxxxxxxxx>:
> The following does what I think you've asked for (plus a bit more).
> There are probably better ways to do it, but ...
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>                version="1.0">
>
>  <!-- Match root and apply templates to whatever comes along -->
>  <!-- (Likely to be a PI or two, some comments, and the root -->
>  <!-- element.) -->
>  <xsl:template match="/">
>    <xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>
>  </xsl:template>
>
>  <!-- Identity transform for most stuff: -->
>  <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
>    <xsl:copy>
>      <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
>    </xsl:copy>
>  </xsl:template>
>
>  <!-- But for a <p> that has a child <quote>, process -->
>  <!-- the nodes *without* copying the <p> itself to the -->
>  <!-- output yet. -->
>  <xsl:template match="p[quote]">
>    <xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>
>  </xsl:template>
>
>  <!-- For text nodes that are a direct child of a <p> -->
>  <!-- element ... -->
>  <xsl:template match="text()[parent::p]">
>    <!-- ... generate a <p> element just for this text node. -->
>    <p>
>      <!-- If this is the first child text node of the parent <p>, -->
>      <!-- then copy over the parent <p> attributes to this output -->
>      <!-- <p>. -->
>      <xsl:if test="position()=1">
>        <xsl:copy-of select="../@*"/>
>      </xsl:if>
>      <!-- Copy over the actual text (remember, this is a text -->
>      <!-- node we've matched). You may want to use normalize- -->
>      <!-- space() here to make the output XML prettier, pres- -->
>      <!-- uming you're not interested in the details of white -->
>      <!-- space in your text nodes. -->
>      <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>    </p>
>  </xsl:template>
>
>  <!-- Copyright 2009 Syd Bauman, available for anyone to copy -->
>  <!-- and use in whole or part under the terms of the Creative -->
>  <!-- Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License, -->
>  <!-- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/. -->
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
>> <p>
>>     text
>>     <quote>text</quote>
>>     text
>>     <quote>text</quote>
>>     text
>> </p>
>>
>> to
>>
>> <p>text</p>
>> <quote>text</quote>
>> <p>text</p>
>> <quote>text</quote>
>> <p>text</p>