Re: Simple XSL but having problems

> what did i do wrong 

Your posted file does not demonstrate the problem you are having, so
it's hard to guess.

as posted it produces the following:

$ saxon simple.xml simple.xsl
Error on line 11 column 3 of file:/c:/tmp/simple.xml:
  Error reported by XML parser: unexpected characters in element end tag (expected "b")
Transformation failed: Run-time errors were reported



If you delete the spurious <b> on line 11 then you get the output that I
think you expected, and not the output that you said that you got:

$ saxon simple.xml simple.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>test1
                                ::
                                test2
                                ;;
                        test3
                                ::
                                test4
                                ;;
                        :|*|:


David

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