Re: pre-processing of child elements

<xsl:template match="child-element">
  <xsl:if test="parent::element">
    <xsl:text>&lt;/i&gt;</xsl:text>
  </xsl:if>

That just writes some character in to the current element content it
does not do anything with an i element node.

If I understand you couurect;y you want to wrap all text node children
of element with i and not wrap eleemnt children so:




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

<xsl:template match="element/text()">
  <i><xsl:apply-templates/></i>
</xsl:template>

is probably all you need.

David

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