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On 1/21/06, Liron <magilam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Hugh, > > Thank you very much for your reply. > Unfortunetaly "parent::child/text()" didn't work for me and returned empty > nodes. The only solution offered to me that worked so far is "text()[2]", > but like you said, if the text is located before the childname node or in > any other position than the second one, it won't work... > I'm using libxsl to do all the xsl processing You can use the following stylesheet: <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:template match="/"> <tree> <xsl:apply-templates select="tree/child[childname]"/> </tree> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="child"> <childText> <xsl:apply-templates/> </childText> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="childname"/> </xsl:stylesheet> But I would suggest that you source XML structure should be changed because when you have: <node> <child/> Some text </node> All the presentational whitespace surrounding "Some text" is part of the value (the first carriage return, the indentation and the second CR), which is not the intention. Having mixed content like that isn't really suitable for data-centric XML as this problem has demonstrated - its much better to have an element for each value, and each element should only contain other elements, or text, but not both eg: <node> <child/> <child>Some text</child> </node> cheers andrew
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