Help me -- making *part* of a value bold...

[Guest Disgruntor]

Ok, so I'm new to XSL, so this might be an easy question, or it might be impossible, but I'd like to believe that *anything* is possible.My XML is populated by our database. One of the fields is a footer, that populates an XML element <Footer>. For one particular footer, we want to make part of the sentence bold while the other part remains normal.currently, the XML looks like this:...blah blah...<Footer>Here is some text</Footer>...blah blah...and the XSL parses like so:<fo:block font-size="12pt" space-after="5pt"> <xsl:value-of select="Footer"/></fo:block>I tried to add <b> and </b> around the parts that I want to make bold, but the XSL ends up outputting those tags as text. Is there ANY WAY to take care of this issue? Do you need more information?Thanks.

[Mecha-Knuckles]

Here is one way; this is the xml document:

<Footer>  <paragraph>Here is some text.</paragraph>   <bold>Here is some bold text.</bold></Footer>

and this is the XSL:

<xsl:template match="Footer">  <fo:block font-size="12pt" space-after="5pt">    <xsl:apply-templates select="paragraph"/>    <xsl:apply-templates select="bold"/>  </fo:block></xsl:template><xsl:template match="paragraph">  <p>    <xsl:value-of select="."/>  </p></xsl:template><xsl:template match="bold">  <p>    <b>      <xsl:value-of select="."/>    </b>  </p></xs:template>

Mind you this is not very clean, and there may be some errors in there. Were you to supply us with a link to the entire XML and XSL files this could be tidied up .