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**MJEggertson**

Say I have element definitions like so:

Code:

<!ELEMENT root (#PCDATA|markup1|markup2)*>
<!ELEMENT markup1 (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT markup2 (#PCDATA)>

An example would be,

Code:

<root>
    This is some<markup1>text</markup1>.
    Some of the words are <markup2>important</markup2>.
</root>

And the xsl templates may be something like:

Code:

<xsl:template match="/">
    <html>
        <body>
            <!-- Parsed content should go here. -->
        </body>
    </html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="markup1">
    <span color="green"><xsl:value-of select="." /></span>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="markup2">
    <span color="blue"><xsl:value-of select="." /></span>
</xsl:template>

I can't figure out how to apply the templates in their node's position relative to the parsed character data. Using an apply-templates directive only returns applied child nodes, and a value-of directive on the root element doesn't apply the child node templates. How do you do it?

**bricker42**

You need a template rule to match text nodes. Then you can use apply-templates.

<xsl:template match="text()">
<xsl:value-of select="." />
</xsl:template>

**MJEggertson**

Well, yeah, that's what I thought.

It's working now. I still have no clue why it wasn't earlier. I swear I did that, I even said that it didn't work because I tried it. I must have had a typo, weird though that it still validated...

Anyways, thanks!

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