Peter wrote

> Michael has explained the dropping of insignificant white-space. I don't
> need that because I'm typically outputting to LaTeX which does that by
> itself, but I do need the reverse: to reinsert the deleted
> white-space-only nodes which fall between subelements



Why do you drop the white space nodes if handling mixed content?
Dropping them (at the xml parse or xsl levels) is optional.

David