RE: [xsl] text extraction

["Colin Adams" <colinpauladams@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Your trying to hard :-)
just <xsl:value-of select="E1" will do.

> From: mus47@xxxxxxxx
>
> I have to extract a text contained in a xml element and all its 
> descendants.
> <E1> text1 <E2> text2 </E2> text3 </E1>
> using
> <xsl:for-each select="E1|E1//*">
>  <xsl:apply-templates select="text()"/>
> </xsl:for-each>
> gives:
>  text1 text3 text2
> and
> <xsl:for-each select="E1|E1//*">
>  <xsl:value-of select="text()"/>
> </xsl:for-each>
> gives:
> text1 text2
>
> I want to have something like:
> text1 text2 text3

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