Hi
  I am a beginner in XSL. I am trying with following :

XML:
<ScemaVariables>
   <contacts>Test Contact1</contacts>
   </ScemaVariables>

XSL:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
    <xsl:output method="xml"/>
    <xsl:variable name="xxx">xxxconstantvalue</xsl:variable>
    <xsl:variable name="contacts1">
        <xsl:value-of select="//contacts"/>
    </xsl:variable>
    <xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:apply-templates/>
    Value of Contacts is : <xsl:value-of select="$contacts1"/>
    Value of xxx is : <xsl:value-of select="$xxx"/>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Expected Output:
 Value of Contacts is : Test Contact1
 Value of xxx is : xxxconstantvalue

Actual Output:

   Test Contact1

        Value of Contacts is : Test Contact1
        Value of xxx is : xxxconstantvalue


I dont know why the Test Contact1 is getting printed while assigning the variable. Its messing up my output XML. Any way to avoid getting that in the output ?

Thanks a lot

Ahmed

You called xsl:apply-templates. That processes the children of the context node. There's no explicit template that matches the children, the default template fires. This cascades its way all down the tree. The default template for text nodes is to copy the text to the output. If you don't want to process the child nodes, don't call apply-templates.

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