You can use this as a starting point (though very specific to your case):

   <xsl:template match="elem1">
        <elem1>
            <titel>
                <nummer>
                    <bold>
                        <xsl:value-of select="titel/bold/text()[1]" />
                    </bold>
                </nummer>
                <text>
                    <bold>
                        <xsl:apply-templates select="titel/bold/tab/following-sibling::text() | titel/bold/tab/following-sibling::*" />
                    </bold>
                </text>
            </titel>
        </elem1>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="*">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:apply-templates />
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>

Thanks a lot Chriztian,

but this is not the whole solution for me, beacause I might have different cases.

Elements like <bold>, <italic> can be there or not. So the only thing I really know is that the element <title> exists and that it has an <tab/>-element or not.

This means, that I might have following cases:

<title>1.<tab/>The headline-text</title>

<title>The headline-text</title>

<title><italic>1.</italic><tab/>the headline-text</title>

<title><emph>1.<tab/>the headline-text</emph></title>

<title>1.<footnote>annotaion</footnote><tab/>the headline-text</title>

and so on...

So I would like to have all elements "between" <title>...<tab/> into the resulting element <nummer>, and all the rest into <text>, but: with all possible parents.

punzo

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