On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, you wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>              But i have the para tags in within the text of the element 

Then you just need another template rule to handle them, eg

<xsl:template match="P">
  <P><xsl:apply-templates/></P>
</xsl:template>

///Peter

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