<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
 <xsl:apply-templates select="description"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="/">
 Value with no tags:
 <xsl:call-template name="strip-tags">
  <xsl:with-param name="text" select="."/>
 </xsl:call-template>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="strip-tags">
 <xsl:param name="text"/>
 <xsl:choose>
   <xsl:when test="contains($text, '&lt;')">
   <xsl:value-of select="substring-before($text, '&lt;')"/>
   <xsl:call-template name="strip-tags">
    <xsl:with-param name="text" select="substring-after($text,'&gt;')"/>
   </xsl:call-template>
  </xsl:when>
 <xsl:otherwise>
  <xsl:value-of select="$text"/>
 </xsl:otherwise>
 </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Regards,

Brian Peddle
http://savedbyzero.org

"Thomas Scheffler" <thomas_scheffler@h...> wrote in message
news:c9ptcf$93r$1@f......
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to take out all tags of a special xml subtree. It should of
> cause keep the text() nodes in the result.
>
> before:
>
> <description>
> Hi this is a sample to show <b>bold</b> and <i>italic</i> or <b><i>bold
> and italic</i></b> text.
> </description>
>
>
> after:
>
> <description>
> Hi this is a sample to show bold and italic or bold and italic text.
> </description>
>
>
> I had no success googling around but maybe someone here as an idea?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Thomas