Matt,
But that is what descendant::*/text() does.

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> Subject: Re:  Only copy nodes that have text at some 
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> >Doesn't xsl:value-of look for the first text content all the 
> way down 
> >the whole branch?
> 
> This still only checks the current node.  I need to be able 
> to traverse down the tree and remove empty elements from any 
> child node as well. Matt
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> > This takes care of all of the product nodes, but what about the 
> > <Grandchild> node for <Product NodeID='C'>?  This should also be 
> > removed. Is there a recursive way of solving this problem?
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> Doesn't xsl:value-of look for the first text content all the 
> way down the whole branch?  If so, you could test like this:
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> <xsl:variable name='is-there-any-text'>
>     <xsl:value-of select='.'>
> </xsl:variable>
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> <xsl:if test='$is-there-any-text !=""'>....</xsl:if>
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> Sorry all those quotes are hard to read, just get them to nest right.
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> Cheers,
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> Tom P
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