I cannot understand why my I'm outputting text elements that are outside of my explicit xpath context. I've uploaded my work so far: www.figit.com/dev/xslt.zip w/o the associated images and css. You'll notice I have my xml file and 2 xslt files. One "navoptions.xsp" is only for stroring navigation instances, this site wont have frames so I needed a way to store various active/selected/expanded versions of the navigation. I'm setting up parameters based on the content.xml file, you'll see what I mean. Anyhow the problem that has been killing me for like 2 days now is I can't seem to output only whats in the pageOne element. I've tried a ton of different ways but cant seem to get this. The output I desire would be

pageOne's content including the headers/links and the navigation instance I'm calling on by name and thats it. Nothing from page two, also notice that its outputting the elements for the navigation options. I dont want that at the bottom either : o ).

If anyone could download these files and take a look that would be soooo great. I think it has something to do with my apply templates tags, thanks in avance for any help you can offer me!

Thanks,
-mike

Yo Mike!

I had a look and I think I know what your problem is.

When you call <xsl:apply-templates/> in the TD class="stage", your context node is the document root. Calling this will apply templates to all child nodes, including page TWO. Since you don't explicitly have a template for it, I think it defaults to applying templates to any child of page TWO. So you'll get something outputted for page two's <paragraph>.

If you really want to be sure, try using <xsl:apply-templates match="YOUR XPATH EXPRESSION"/> whenever its possible.

Try adding this template to pageOne.xsl

<xsl:template match="content">
  <xsl:apply-templates select="pageOne"/>
</xsl:template>

This way, no other page but pageOne will be selected and the navigation options won't show up.

Hoping this help a little,
RushMan

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