On Sun, 2 May 2004 07:01:05 -0700, =?Utf-8?B?VGVk?= 

You might have some luck using other text processing tools, but XML is
not the solution for a document structure like this 

blah blah some text blah blah
<xml>
	<node>blah</node>
	<node>blah</node>
</xml>
blah blah some more text blah blah


Any XML document must have a root note. Anything before or after the
open and closing root node tag means that the document is NOT xml
therefore there are no XML tools which can do what you want.

Cheers -  Neil

>  XML data only.  Somehow Text not associated to the XML tags 
> which are outside of the start end tags that have seamingly nothing 
> to do with the XML structure interferes with the XML/XSL
>  transformations. Is there a way to have this text ignored 
> by the XML or XSL interpreters?
>Ted

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