Re: xslt & doctype problem

> > If I process them with xalan 2.7 (I had similar problems with msxml, and
> > switched because I hoped xalan might be different) the 'head' and 'body'
> > tags in the second file is always matched by the wildcard template.

* matches an element in any namespace - it's likely that in the second
file the head and body elements are in a namespace, therefore they
don't get matched by your head and body templates (as they only match
head and body in no namespace).

You'd need to post the two input files to confirm this....