[xsl] Extracting value from node with formatter elements

[Amit Hanchinamani <a.hanchinamani@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

I am using XSLT 2.0 and parser Saxon.

I am transforming some html tags to another tag format. I have span tags 
which contain text value surrounded by formattere like bold, italic and 
underline. The problem is when I try to extract the value of the node, 
it always returns the text value without formatters <b>,<u> & <i>. The 
following is the code:

<xsl:template match="span" mode="copy">
       <xsl:variable name="elementText">                      
           <xsl:value-of select="." />
       </xsl:variable>

The input tag looks the following
<span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12.0pt;"><b><u>blah 
blah</u></b></span>

I want to get the entire node value "<b><u>blah blah</u></b>". But using 
<xsl:value-of select="." /> or <xsl:value-of select="text()"/> or 
<xsl:value-of select="current()" /> returns only "blah blah". I cannot 
figure out how to get the entire value along with the formatting tags.
Any help appreciated.

Regards,
Amit


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