While your example is insufficient to determine the cause of your problem, I suspect that you are missing at least an <xsl:for-each select="p"> statement or something similar and as a result you are not achieving recursion. Michael -----Original Message----- From: Blake Carver [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 8:58 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: XT Question Hi All, I have a <scopecontent> <p>Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah </P> <p>Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah </P> <p>Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah </P> After I run it through XT using this call: <xsl:value-of select="ead/archdesc/dsc/c01[@id='ser2']/scopecontent" /> I get this as output Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah My paragraph tags disappear. I can't seem to find anything that says this should be happening, anyone have any ideas? ------------------------------------------ Blake Carver Web Librarian The Ohio State University Libraries See Also: www.LISNews.com