RE: br elements to root

<p>
 <strong>
   strong:text(top) <br/>prefix
     <span style="a style">
       span a
       <span style="rgb();">
         span b<br/> text
       </span>
       text
      </span>
   strong:text(btm) <br/>suffix<br/>
 </strong>
 Root level text with<br/> tag.
</p>

<p>
 <strong>
   strong:text(top)
 </strong>
 <br/>
 <strong>
   prefix
   <span style="a style">
     span a
     <span style="rgb();">
       span b
     </span>
   </span>
 </strong>
 <br/>
 <strong>
   <span>
     <span>
      text
     </span>
     text
   </span>
   strong:text(btm)
 </strong>
 <br/>
 <strong>
   suffix
 </strong>
 <br/>
 <strong>
 </strong>
 Root level text with
 <br/>
  tag.
</p>

 <strong>
 </strong>

From: jpk <jopaki@xxxxxxxxx>
Sir,

I want to thank you for your very helpful input.  I
ended up doing just this - but in Java.  I don't think
XSL has the "easy" ability to do such a task since its
notion of an "element" is not the element itself
rather itself AND its children along with its matching
end tag.  I don't really find XSL very useful and am
dismayed by it.

Jon