I have the following input:

<p>string of text &lt;sup&gt;&amp;#174;&lt;/sup&gt;<p>

I need to output only the text (and none of the html elements or entities):

<p>string of text</p>

Is there an easy way to resolve the entities and then grab the text() of the <p> element?

Not in standard XSLT there isn't no. As far as the XSLT processor knows the text of the <p> element is just that, text.

If you are using Saxon and you know the inner text is valid XML then you could trying using saxon:evaluate() to process the inner text, then apply templates to only output child text() elements (e.g. <xsl:value-of select="saxon:evaluate(p)/child::text()"/> or similar.)

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Correction:

<xsl:value-of select="saxon:parse(concat('&lt;root&gt;',/p,'&lt;/root&gt;'))/root/child::text()"/>

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I am using Oxygen which uses Saxon. I tried to saxon:evaluate() and assigned the saxon namespace (http://icl.com/saxon), but I receive an error that it cannot find a matching 1-argument function.

I think for Saxon 9 the namespace is http://saxon.sf.net/, see http://www.saxonica.com/documentatio...ions/intro.xml

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Sorry, I had the namespace wrong and it works now.

Namespace: http://saxon.sf.net/

Thanks for your help!