Hi Rob and Andy,

Thank you both for the reply.
I tried Andy's template, but it won't do what I want still. The
relevant part of my xslt looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html" cdata-section-elements="fulltext" />
<xsl:template match="/">

[... html header stuff ...]

<xsl:if test="/result/document/fulltext!=''">
<tr>
	<td class="label">Text</td>
	<td class="label">:</td>
	<td class="fulldoccontent">
	<xsl:apply-templates select="/result/document/fulltext"
mode="search-results-with-highlight" />

	</td>
</tr>
</xsl:if>

[... html footer stuff ...]
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="searchhit" mode="search-results-with-highlight" >
 <span style="background: red; padding: 0.125em 0.5em;">
<xsl:apply-templates mode="search-results-with-highlight" /></span>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="*" mode="search-results-with-highlight" >
 <!--
 This is needed in case of more element structure within <fulltext>, so
as to preserve the mode
 It might even copy some elements (embedded HTML?) to the output
 -->
<xsl:apply-templates mode="search-results-with-highlight" />
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

I think the problem is that I insert the <searchhit> and </searchhit>
tags from PHP. So those tags are treated as CDATA within the fulltext
element. Could this be the case?
Thanks.

Kind regards,
Peter.