Re: defining nodes to apply template to

  I used contains function in the apply templates how
  could this be applied to your answers...?

change
(.|following-sibling::data)='START'
to
(.|following-sibling::data)[contains(.,'START')]

  If I also wanted the data contained on the line with
  START how can I move the position back one... 

change

(.|following-sibling::data)[contains(.,'START')]

to


following-sibling::data[contains(.,'START')]

  the reason why on the spacing is due to defining the
  start and stop points I cannot guarantee the amount of
  spacing within the text so normalizing the spacing
  within the doc helps this

yes but you can do this as you go along rather than a pre-pass, eg
just using normalize-space(.) rather than . at places where you want to
normali[sz]e.


David

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