Re: Selecting child elements bar one

Thanks all for your comments.  I think I must have been delirious when
I posted my previous message.  Even I could have spotted my error if
I'd waited till the following morning.  The problem I was trying to
solve, before going back to basics, (and becoming exasperated to the
point of delirium), was this one:

How can I select the text value of an element node, and 'copy-of' all the
elemnt's children bar one?

For example, given this XML:

  <literate-code>
    This program does everything.  It's brilliant and has no bugs.
    Here's a line by line analysyis of how it works:

    First of all we must define the function <function>do-everything</function>.
    We decided to call it that because that's what it does.
    <comment>;;; define the function</comment>
    <code>(defun do-everything ()</code>
    .
    .
    .
  </lterate-code>

I want to produce this output:

  <section-body>
    This program does everything.  It's brilliant and has no bugs.
    Here's a line by line analysyis of how it works:

    First of all we must define the function <function>do-everything</function>.
    We decided to call it that because that's what it does.
    <code>(defun do-everything ()</code>
    .
    .
    .
  </section-body>

Everything is preserved except for the 'comment' element and it's text
value.  I can ignore 'comment' alright but not without losing the text
value of 'literate-code'?

sdt