Is there a way to pass an entire element, with all its children to a
template.  Then, within that template which it was passed to, specifically
extract certain elements to display the text?

Mike

<xsl:apply-templates select="anynode">
  <xsl:with-param name="node" select="node"/>
</xsl:apply-templates>

<xsl:template match="anynode">
  <xsl:param name="node" select="/.."/>
  <xsl:value-of select="$node/child/@value"/>
</xsl:template>