I had a problem like this in the prototype I put together. The
answer I came up with may not be the most elegant, but it worked
(at least in LotusXsl which is the tool I was using). I simply
output a comment instead of outputing the content. It looked like
this: 

<xsl:template match="para[@userlevel='NOVICE']">
 <xsl:comment>Novice level information skipped.
 </xsl:comment>
</xsl:template>

Sara Mitchell

"John E. Simpson" wrote:
> 
> This seems like something I ought to know, but don't (and I can't find a
> reference to it in the WD).
> 
> Is there any way to suppress nodes in the source tree so they're not copied
> to the result? Assume a document something like this:
> 
>         <root>
>                 <elem1>...</elem1>
>                 <elem2>...</elem2>
>         </root>
> 
> Can I transform this to a result like this:
> 
>         <root>
>                 <elem1>...</elem1>
>         </root>
> 
> That is, *not* include elem2 in the result? (Assume there's a
> default/built-in rule for the document as a whole.)
> 
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