Hi Ixa,

Thanks for the suggestion.
But I think:  <xsl:template match="searchhit">
won't work because of <searchhit> and </searchhit> being CDATA within
the fulltext element.
I think I need some sort of replacement template to replace the
<searchhit> tags.
I've already been experimenting with it, but didn't reach the goal yet.
I can replace the opening <searchhit> tags now, but when I store the
result of that replacement in a variable and then use that variable as
the input of the replacement of the closing tags it won't work anymore.

Here's what I tried:

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<?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" />

<xsl:template match="/result/document/fulltext">

	<xsl:variable name="openTags">
		<xsl:call-template name="replace">
		    <xsl:with-param name="text" select="." />
		    <xsl:with-param name="from" select="'&lt;searchhit&gt;'"/>
		    <xsl:with-param name="with" select="'&lt;span
style=&#34;background: red&#59;&#34;&gt;'"/>
		</xsl:call-template>
	</xsl:variable>

	<xsl:call-template name="replace">
			<xsl:with-param name="text"><xsl:copy-of
select="$openTags"/></xsl:with-param>
		    <xsl:with-param name="from" select="'&lt;&#47;searchhit&gt;'"/>
		    <xsl:with-param name="with" select="'&lt;&#47;span&gt;'"/>
	</xsl:call-template>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="replace">
  <xsl:param name="text"/>
  <xsl:param name="from"/>
  <xsl:param name="with"/>

  <xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="$from and contains($text,$from)">

      <xsl:value-of select="substring-before($text,$from)"/>
      <xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="$with"/>

      <xsl:call-template name="replace">
        <xsl:with-param name="text"
select="substring-after($text,$from)"/>
        <xsl:with-param name="from" select="$from"/>
        <xsl:with-param name="with" select="$with"/>
      </xsl:call-template>

    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>

      <xsl:value-of select="$text"/>

    </xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

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The output of this is that the <searchhit> tags get replaced by
<span style="background: red;"> and the closing </searchhit> tags get
replaced by: &lt;/searchhit&gt;
So in the output I get: <span style="background:
red;">mixing&lt;/searchhit&gt;

However, when I leave out the second call to the replace template and
just do this:
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	<xsl:variable name="openTags">
		<xsl:call-template name="replace">
		    <xsl:with-param name="text" select="." />
		    <xsl:with-param name="from" select="'&lt;searchhit&gt;'"/>
		    <xsl:with-param name="with" select="'&lt;span
style=&#34;background: red&#59;&#34;&gt;'"/>
		</xsl:call-template>
	</xsl:variable>

	<xsl:copy-of select="$openTags"/>
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The <span background: "red";> tags are being parsed by the browser and
everything after it gets a red background.

Any ideas?
Thanks.

Kind regards,
Peter.