how to get string value of element node without children concatenated

I'm sure the answer is obvious, but I can't seem to find it.

I have the following XML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> 
<switches>
        <finishes>
                <finish>
                        Almond Decorative 
                        <hold>no</hold> 
                </finish>
                <finish>
                        Commercial 
                        <hold>no</hold> 
                        <hold>yes</hold> 
                </finish>
                <finish>
                        Ivory Decorative 
                        <hold>no</hold> 
                        <hold>yes</hold> 
                </finish>
                <finish>
                        White Decorative 
                        <hold>no</hold> 
                </finish>
        </finishes>
</switches>

And this stylesheet:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:output method="html" encoding="UTF-8" />

<xsl:template match="/">
        <table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" 
cols="{count(//hold)+1}">
                <tr class="finish">
                        <th rowspan="2">Time Cycle</th>
                        <xsl:apply-templates select="/switches/finishes" />
                </tr>
                <tr class="hold">
                        <xsl:apply-templates select="/switches/finishes/finish" 
mode="hold" />
                </tr>
        </table>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="finishes">
        <xsl:for-each select="finish">
                <th colspan="{count(descendant::hold)}">
                        <xsl:value-of select="." />
                </th>
        </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="finish" mode="hold">
        <xsl:for-each select="hold">
                <th>
                        <xsl:value-of select="current()" />
                </th>
        </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Which produces the following output:
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" cols="7">
        <tr class="finish">
                <th rowspan="2">Time Cycle</th> 
                <th colspan="1">Almond Decorativeno</th> 
                <th colspan="2">Commercialnoyes</th> 
                <th colspan="2">Ivory Decorativenoyes</th> 
                <th colspan="1">White Decorativeno</th> 
        </tr>
        <tr class="hold">
                <th>no</th> 
                <th>no</th> 
                <th>yes</th> 
                <th>no</th> 
                <th>yes</th> 
                <th>no</th> 
        </tr>
</table>

That's the correct output (according to Michael Kay's 2nd edition the string 
value of an element is the string value of the element and all it's children 
concatenated). But I need to get the string value WITHOUT the concatenation. IE 
I want my output to look like:
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" cols="7">
        <tr class="finish">
                <th rowspan="2">Time Cycle</th> 
                <th colspan="1">Almond Decorative</th> 
                <th colspan="2">Commercial</th> 
                <th colspan="2">Ivory Decorative</th> 
                <th colspan="1">White Decorative</th> 
        </tr>
        <tr class="hold">
                <th>no</th> 
                <th>no</th> 
                <th>yes</th> 
                <th>no</th> 
                <th>yes</th> 
                <th>no</th> 
        </tr>
</table>

I'm having exactly zero luck on this one though. Using MSXML 4.0 SP 1 for this.

Craig


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