> >Is there some reason not to use
> >   <xsl:template match="Paragraph[@stylename = 'Body']">
> >     <xsl:apply-templates select="./TextRun/Text/@value"/>
> >   </xsl:template>
> >?
> 
> Not that I can see ... though the "./" is redundant.

Right. Good point. I was just copying from the OP -- all I did was
s/value-of/apply-templates/;. :-)


> What led you to believe this was verboten?

Only that Gerrit and Michael had raised other solutions that, IMHO,
seem a little less XSLT-ish. So I thought maybe there was some
"gotcha" I had overlooked.

Thanks, Ken!

-- 
 Syd Bauman, EMT-Paramedic
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 Northeastern University Women Writers Project
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