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[xsl] how to get string value of element node without children concatenated

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I'm sure the answer is obvious, but I can't seem to find it.

I have the following XML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> 
<switches>
	<finishes>
		<finish>
			Almond Decorative 
			<hold>no</hold> 
		</finish>
		<finish>
			Commercial 
			<hold>no</hold> 
			<hold>yes</hold> 
		</finish>
		<finish>
			Ivory Decorative 
			<hold>no</hold> 
			<hold>yes</hold> 
		</finish>
		<finish>
			White Decorative 
			<hold>no</hold> 
		</finish>
	</finishes>
</switches>

And this stylesheet:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html" encoding="UTF-8" />

<xsl:template match="/">
	<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" cols="{count(//hold)+1}">
		<tr class="finish">
			<th rowspan="2">Time Cycle</th>
			<xsl:apply-templates select="/switches/finishes" />
		</tr>
		<tr class="hold">
			<xsl:apply-templates select="/switches/finishes/finish" mode="hold" />
		</tr>
	</table>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="finishes">
	<xsl:for-each select="finish">
		<th colspan="{count(descendant::hold)}">
			<xsl:value-of select="." />
		</th>
	</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="finish" mode="hold">
	<xsl:for-each select="hold">
		<th>
			<xsl:value-of select="current()" />
		</th>
	</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Which produces the following output:
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" cols="7">
	<tr class="finish">
		<th rowspan="2">Time Cycle</th> 
		<th colspan="1">Almond Decorativeno</th> 
		<th colspan="2">Commercialnoyes</th> 
		<th colspan="2">Ivory Decorativenoyes</th> 
		<th colspan="1">White Decorativeno</th> 
	</tr>
	<tr class="hold">
		<th>no</th> 
		<th>no</th> 
		<th>yes</th> 
		<th>no</th> 
		<th>yes</th> 
		<th>no</th> 
	</tr>
</table>

That's the correct output (according to Michael Kay's 2nd edition the string value of an element is the string value of the element and all it's children concatenated). But I need to get the string value WITHOUT the concatenation. IE I want my output to look like:
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" cols="7">
	<tr class="finish">
		<th rowspan="2">Time Cycle</th> 
		<th colspan="1">Almond Decorative</th> 
		<th colspan="2">Commercial</th> 
		<th colspan="2">Ivory Decorative</th> 
		<th colspan="1">White Decorative</th> 
	</tr>
	<tr class="hold">
		<th>no</th> 
		<th>no</th> 
		<th>yes</th> 
		<th>no</th> 
		<th>yes</th> 
		<th>no</th> 
	</tr>
</table>

I'm having exactly zero luck on this one though. Using MSXML 4.0 SP 1 for this.

Craig


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