CLARIFICATION - Selectively convert subordinate elemen

Hi,

Thanks for the replies. I have updated the description below to better
describe the problem at hand. Any help you could give would be appreciated.

I have a fragment something like this:
 
 
        <widget>This <B>is</B>some <SUP>text</SUP> that I want to convert
<HIDDEN>don't convert this</HIDDEN> to text</widget>
 
 
What I want to end up with is this:
 
        This is some text that I want to convert to text
 
I have tried <xsl:value-of select="."/> but of course that gives me:
 
        This is some text that I want to convert don't convert this to text
 
The added ripple here is that I have other instances of these elements that
I 
want to process rather than just convert to text, so I have template rules
for 
the subordinate elements defined already.
 
Can anyone suggest a way that I can convert the fragment to text while 
simultaneously dropping the <HIDDEN> element?
 
Could I define template rules for each subordinate element with a "mode" 
attribute set, thereby creating an alternative processing rule for each one
that
would allow me then to output the text?

Is there a quicker, more efficient way of doing that?
 
Thanks
 
D.