Parent text with child content in the middle of it - xslt-2.0

Question

I have this XML code
<parag>blah blah blah</parag>
<parag>blah blah, refer to <linkCode code1="a" code2="b" code3="c"/> for further details.</parag>
I can't figure out how to get the link to stay in the middle of the parent text. The following code
<xsl:for-each select="parag">
<p><xsl:value-of select="text()"/>
<xsl:for-each select="linkCode">
this link
</xsl:for-each>
</p>
</xsl:for-each>
produces
<p>blah blah blah</p>
<p>blah blah, refer to for further details.this link</p>
What I want is
<p>blah blah blah</p>
<p>blah blah, refer to this link for further details.</p>
Any ideas? No, I don't have control over the content of the XML.

Answer 1

Use just simple overriding of the identity rule:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" />
<xsl:template match="node()|#*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()|#*"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="linkCode">
this link
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="parag">
<p><xsl:apply-templates select="node()|#*"/></p>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
When this transformation is applied on the following XML document (the provided fragment wrapped into a single top element -- to get a well-formed XML document):
<t>
<parag>blah blah blah</parag>
<parag>blah blah, refer to <linkCode code1="a" code2="b" code3="c"/> for further details.</parag>
</t>
the wanted, correct result is produced:
<t>
<p>blah blah blah</p>
<p>blah blah, refer to this link for further details.</p>
</t>
And if you want to have the top element not output:
just add this template:
<xsl:template match="/*"><xsl:apply-templates/></xsl:template>
So, the complete code becomes:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" />
<xsl:template match="node()|#*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()|#*"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="linkCode">
this link
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="parag">
<p><xsl:apply-templates select="node()|#*"/></p>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="/*"><xsl:apply-templates/></xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>