How do I preserve markup tags?

Question

I\'ve got an XML document containing news stories, and the body element of a news story contains p tags amongst the plain text. When I use XSL to retrieve the body, e.g.

Answer 1

The value of an XML element - this is true not just in XSLT but in DOM implementations - is the concatenation of all of its descendant text nodes. In XSLT, value-of emits an element's value, while copy-of emits a copy of the element.