Seriously, because i didn't know any better ... i see now why the mixed content is OK to have. ninja-joe ... my apologies. If you do take my advice, feel free to ask more questions ... i personally find XSLT and XPath to be somewhat hard to work with until you get the hang of them. While i was developing hacking out the above code, i found it 'easier' (falsely, of course) to wrap everything instead of dealing with mixed content. mirod++ yet again. ;)

jeffa

L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)