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 Hi My source XML file contains a myriad of <A id=something></A> entities which for the most part I wish to drop. I am using an identity template plus the following to do this: ----- <!-- drop A tags which have no content --> <xsl:template match="A"> <xsl:if test="* or text() or string(.)"> <xsl:copy> <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/> </xsl:copy> </xsl:if> </xsl:template> ----- Unfortunately and unsurprisingly this is too naove; it drops the <a> tags OK but leaves me with broken text. If I look at the input source in a text editor I can see that these tags are placed (arbitrarily so far as I can tell): a. between newlines b. after a newline and before text c. after text and before a newline d. between text strings In cases a and b my output preserves the newlines and my later transforms which normalize whitespace are fine. In cases c and d the tag may be in the middle of a word or at either end of a word. When at either end it is again not a problem as the output XML contains a newline which is normalized acceptably. My difficulty comes with this kind of input: ----- <Body> <A ID="something"></A> To delete a n<A ID="something"></A> ode:</Body> ----- Note that there are several thousand node types which can potentially hold this kind of text content, so writing a "Body" template to manage it isn't really feasible. Ideally this input should become ----- <Body>To delete a node:</Body> ----- But of course the transform I'm using isn't doing this, I'm getting ----- <Body>To delete a n ode:</Body> ----- My ham-fisted attempts to come up with templates which (a) *reliably* identify this situation, and (b) *don't* lead to my dropping huge screeds of wanted XML are failing miserably. This doesn't seem like a terribly unusual requirement, but I can't find an answer in the FAQ or my current set of books. I've also read the (otherwise helpful) "controlling whitespace" articles by Bob DuCharme on xml.com. Could somebody please point me towards the right technique to use here? Thanks Trevor 
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