At 2008-06-30 14:18 -0700, mark bordelon wrote:
Thanks for your quick reply. In fact, the select statement was what 
I started out with, but changed it to apply-templates in order to 
have the content itself match on the <b> and <br />.

Sorry, I didn't read the content of the attribute and only addressed 
its value.  I didn't realize which direction you were going in.



Doesn't apply templates force further matching of the matched node?

No, the version of the instruction you used pushes the child content, 
and as I said, the attribute doesn't have any child content.



Instead I am still getting the attribute value, untransformed.

Which is all you can do with an element ... you don't have any 
elements in your attribute ... you have a bunch of angle brackets, 
but those are just text angle brackets.  Text angle brackets in 
attributes are not markup as angle brackets between elements are.



Mike has pointed to proprietary extensions to XSLT that can read text 
angle brackets as markup angle brackets, but this is not a feature of 
the specification.



. . . . . . . . . . . . Ken




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