Tag over-lapping in XSL?

[Kayers]

I made some tags for bold, italics, and so on in XML using XSL, except I can't get them to over-lap like HTML will do. For example:

This is <bold>special</bold> text

...shows up as...

This is special text

...but the following example...

This is <ital>very <bold>special</bold></ital> text

...shows up as...

This is very special text

...instead of the hoped:

This is very special text

Any ideas? Anything would be useful, even a recomendation to another forum would help.

Thanks,
- Keith

(Here's my code)

<xsl:template match="content/page/paragraph">

<xsl:choose>

<xsl:when test="@type = 'textonly'">

<xsl:if test="@title != ''">

<p class="content_body_right_subtitle"><xsl:value-of select="@title"/></p>

</xsl:if>
<p class="content_body_right_text"><xsl:apply-templates/></p>

</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="@type = 'list'">

<xsl:if test="@image != ''">

<img src="{@image}" alt="" style="margin-right:15px; margin-bottom:15px; float:right;" />

</xsl:if>
<xsl:apply-templates select="list"/>

</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>

<xsl:if test="@title != ''">

<p class="content_body_right_subtitle"><xsl:value-of select="@title"/></p>

</xsl:if>
<p class="content_body_right_text"><img src="{@image}" alt="" style="margin-left:15px; margin-bottom:15px; float:right;" /><xsl:value-of select="."/></p>

</xsl:otherwise>

</xsl:choose>

</xsl:template>


<xsl:template match="content/page/paragraph/bold">

<strong><xsl:apply-templates/></strong><xsl:text> </xsl:text>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="content/page/paragraph/ital">

<i><xsl:apply-templates/></i><xsl:text> </xsl:text>

</xsl:template>

[Kayers]

Nevermind another forum post helped me (I just needed to take out the path of the bold and ital templates)

One last thing: Does anyone know how to make the <hr> in XML?