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I tried the solution. It definitely seems like the right direction. It did transformations of all the whitespace elements, as you said it would. thanks.

However, the transformation has an unintended effect of moving all attribute values to the content of an element.

For example
            <td width="40" />
            <td width="550">
               <p>
                  <whitespace lines="8" inches="1.25" />
                  <p align="right">

Was transformed to:
            <td>40</td>
            <td>
               550
               <p>
                  <p>

Thanks. Still working at it!

At 09:46 PM 7/21/2002 -0600, Mike Brown wrote:

Phillip Rhodes wrote:
>     <xsl:template match="html">
>          <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
>          <xsl:apply-templates/>
>     </xsl:template>

copy-of will copy an entire branch of the tree. So you asked for all of
the 'html' element, including its descendants, to be copied verbatim.
Your apply-templates along with the built-in templates sent you down
into the source tree, but your template for whitespace never matched
because you were looking for whitespace[lines] which means whitespace
element having at least 1 lines element child. @lines was what you
meant, but that's not helpful either.

This is the meat of the stylesheet you want -- an identity transform, with
overrides for whitespace elements:

<xsl:template match="node()">
  <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
  </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="whitespace">
  <p/>
  <p/>
</xsl:template>

I suspect you want the lines attribute of the whitespace element to determine
how many 'p' elements (or 'br' elements inside one 'p', probably) to insert?
In that case, a recursive template (untested, but should do the trick):

<xsl:template match="whitespace">
  <p>
    <xsl:call-template name="insert-brs">
      <xsl:with-param name="num" select="number(@lines)"/>
    </xsl:call-template>
  </p>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="insert-brs">
  <xsl:param name="num"/>
  <xsl:if test="$num > 0">
    <br/>
    <xsl:call-template name="insert-brs">
      <xsl:with-param name="num" select="$num - 1"/>
    </xsl:call-template>
  </xsl:if>
</xsl:template>

   - Mike
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