a white space node is a node.....
If you are sat on book and do <xsl:apply-templates/>
then
<book>
<chapter>...</chapter>
<chapter>...</chapter>
<chapter>...</chapter>
</book>
processes a node set of 7 nodes, 4 of them being white space text nodes
and the chapters are at position 2 4 6.
MSXML by default throws away white space.
use xsl:strip-space to do the same or simpler if you only want to
process chapters, do
<xsl:apply-templates select="chapter"/>
David
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