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 I figured it out just after sending... I was calling substring-before() and substring-after(), both of which convert a node to a string. An alternate (and more successful) way of doing what you want is to use d-o-e and CDATA sections, though it makes many XSLT'ers blood boil. Remember that d-o-e is not a mandatory option for an XSLT engine. It's not that it makes our blood boil (why should you care about the state of my cardiovascular system? :-) or even that it's not universally supported ... it's that it locks the application into one processing model, namely one in which the output is written to a file. If you ever use XSLT another way -- maybe pipelining transforms or browsing client-side in Mozilla -- it'll break. Personally I find d-o-e far less troublesome when I can be assured that writing to a file will Always Always happen. But that's a big thing to assume, especially when helping a friendly stranger who may not yet have become perfectly familiar with all the ins-and-outs of XSLT minutiae, and why one needs to ask such obscure questions about the operational scenario. I agree with Stuart that this is only an XSLTish problem at a stretch. Partly because it's designed to be side-effect-free and not depend on a particular processing order, XSLT has trouble with such notions as "the first time a string occurs in the document, in any <p> element". It can be done but it involves some pretty creative twisting-and-turning. As Greg is kindly showing. :-> Regards, Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list 
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