I have a java program which goes through a directory of xml files and extracts certain nodes using a xsl stylesheet.

Everything works except the xsl is pulling some extra text that I don't want and I don't know how to get rid of it.

<testimonial>
<author>Bob</author>
<location>Ottawa</location>
<pageHeading>Bob in Ottawa</pageHeading>
<quote>Work is fun</quote>About CFPSA5/9/2005CFCF\tsi
<link>test.asp</link>TestimonialsenglishCFCF\tsi5/9/2005_selftrue
</testimonial>

The above is what I'm getting from applying the xsl to a single xml file but what I want is:


<testimonial>
<author>Bob</author>
<location>Ottawa</location>
<pageHeading>Bob in Ottawa</pageHeading>
<quote>Work is fun</quote>
<link>test.asp</link>
</testimonial>


The extra text is from other nodes of the xml but I'm not extracting them using the xsl and I can't figure out how to get rid of it.

The xsl is below


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="html" indent="yes"/>

    <xsl:strip-space elements="/"/>

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

    <xsl:template match="/page/english/author">
        <author> <xsl:value-of select="."/> </author>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="/page/english/location">
        <location> <xsl:value-of select="."/> </location>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="/page/english/quote">
        <quote> <xsl:value-of select="."/> </quote>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="/page/english/page_heading">
        <pageHeading> <xsl:value-of select="."/> </pageHeading>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="/page/metadata/dcrName">
        <link> <xsl:value-of select="."/> </link>
    </xsl:template>



     <xsl:template match="text()">
     <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space()"/>
     </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>


the xml source files look like this:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<page>
    <english>
        <choose>
            <heading/>
        </choose>
        <choose>
            <paragraph/>
        </choose>
        <author>abc</author>
        <location>def</location>
        <page_heading/>
        <quote>aaaaaaa</quote>
    </english>
    <french>
        <choose>
            <heading/>
        </choose>
        <choose>
            <paragraph/>
        </choose>
        <author/>
        <location/>
        <page_heading/>
        <quote/>
    </french>
    <metadata>
        <area>About CFPSA</area>
        <creation_date>5/9/2005</creation_date>
        <creator>CFCF\tsi</creator>
        <dcrName>daf</dcrName>
        <dcrType>Testimonials</dcrType>
        <description/>
        <expiration_date/>
        <keywords/>
        <language>english</language>
        <last_modified_by>CFCF\tsi</last_modified_by>
        <last_modified_date>5/9/2005</last_modified_date>
        <parent/>
        <target>_self</target>
        <touched>true</touched>
    </metadata>
</page>




I could use something like this:

http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/xsl_value_of.asp

but that would generate a
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
for each xml in the directory which I don't want.

Remember that if there's an element that doesn't match any template rule in your stylesheet, the default rule is

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

which generally causes the text of that element to be copied to the result (with no element tags). If this isn't what you want, add the rule:

<xsl:template match="*"/>

which causes unknown elements to be excluded from the result.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference