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RE: Matchin elements in text nodes


> <article>
>  <article_id>123456</article_id>
>  <main_heading>heading</main_heading>
>  <article_date>article date</article_date>
> This is the article text part 1
>  <sub_heading>sub heading</sub_heading>
> The article continues. This is part 2 of it
> </article>
> ...
>
> <xsl:template match="article">
> <xsl:value-of select="text()"/>

Unless you have set <xsl:strip-space>, text() here will select the first
text node, which is the whitespace preceding the <article_id> tag.

Mike Kay


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