> He wants the " untouched, and he wants a \ infront of each ", and he > doesn't even want the <,> around the img tag.
So what he wants really is a block of text , not an element at all... <xsl:template match="image"> <xsl:text>&lt;img src=\"</xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="."/> <xsl:text>\" / &gt;</xsl:text> </xsl:template> Right? Literal boilerplate surrounding the value extracted from the <image> element.