gwoodhouse@g... wrote:
> Ok, so, i can't include the whole code or else my company would beat
> the hell out of me. Here is a more complete and realworld snippet:
> 
> <transcript>
> 		<chapter>
> 			<chapter_hitcount><![CDATA[1 hit]]></chapter_hitcount>
> 			<start_time><![CDATA[01:11:04]]></start_time>
> 			<end_time><![CDATA[01:<span class="hit">22</span>:45]]></end_time>
> 			<abstract> You can see here how you would want <span
> class="hit">22</span> to be displayed</abstract>
> 		</chapter>
> </transcript>
> 
> xslt:
> 	<xsl:template match='chapter'>
>                 <span class="timespan">
> 			(<xsl:apply-templates select="start_time"/> - <xsl:apply-templates
> select="end_time"/>)
> 		</span>
>           	<div class="abstract">
> 			<span class="abstractLead">Summary:</span> <xsl:apply-templates
> select="abstract"/>
> 		</div>
>         </xsl:template>
> 
> In this example i would want the output to display the "abstract"
> output with the span tag, i would want the "end_time" tag to display
> without the <span> tag.

Well that is completely different from what you posted before and in the 
sample above the 'abstract' element contains a 'span' element while the 
'end_time' element does not contain a 'span' element, instead it 
contains pure text with escaped markup.

The 'abstract' element can easily be solved with XSLT

   <xsl:template match="abstract">
     <div class="{local-name()}">
       <xsl:apply-templates/>
     </div>
   </xsl:template>

then you need to add a template matching span that copies that

   <xsl:template match="span">
     <xsl:copy>
       <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
     </xsl:copy>
   </xsl:template>

The 'end_time' element is difficult. If I had a choice I would solve it 
with XSLT 2.0 and David Carlisle's HTML parser done in XSLT 
(http://www.dcarlisle.demon.co.uk/htmlparse.xsl) but I don't know 
whether that is an option for you.



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