Thank you so much for the code.

And, to reassure you, it's not about the formatting at all. I'm parsing HTML into XHTML and the original is a screenplay and I have a kind of rough schema where character names are H4, stage directions are P and speeches are BLOCKQUOTE, and ironically, both will probably look exactly the same in the browser.

It might change later, but I've got to first achieve valid XHTML where the speeches are marked up as a distinct data type to the stage directions.