File: Data.xml
<poem>
<verse>line 1</verse>
<verse>
line 2
</verse>
</poem>
File: Transform.xslt
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="no" />
<xsl:template match="verse">
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before(.,'dreary')" />
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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