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Martin Honnen · October 25th, 2011, 09:59 AM

Please summarize, how does your current stylesheet look, how does the output you want look, how does the output you currently get look.

samjudson · October 25th, 2011, 10:09 AM

Because you have not used the prefix in the template you have specified it is using the built in XSLT template which will always output the inner text nodes of any element and its children.

mhkay · October 25th, 2011, 10:19 AM

>why do i get a dump of data inn the middle of my output xml file

Almost certainly because you are doing an apply-templates that selects nodes for which you have not defined any processing rules (template rules). A good coding practice is to catch these with a fallback template:

Code:

<xsl:template match="*">
  <xsl:message>Warning: no template rule defined for element <xsl:value-of select="name()"/></xsl:message>
</xsl:template>