RE: unwelcome SPAN in text output

> I've assembled all the pieces this time:
> 
> * input sample (no SPAN elements that I can detect, very short)
> * stylesheet (with text output mode set)
> * the output loaded with SPAN.
> 

The output of this stylesheet, from Saxon 6.5.2, is

=============================================
usfr-gc_GeneralConcepts	1	1	
=============================================

How are you invoking the Saxon processor, and how are you displaying the
results? Something that runs after the XSLT processor seems to be trying
to turn the results into half-baked HTML.

Michael Kay


> 
> Thanks again, Arthur A.
> 
> 
> The complete output:
> 
> <SPAN S_='07381AA8 13'>usfr-gc_GeneralConcepts</SPAN><SPAN 
> S_='07381AA8 
> 14'>	</SPAN><SPAN S_='07381AA8 15'>1</SPAN><SPAN S_='07381AA8 
> 16'>	</SPAN><SPAN S_='07381AA8 17'>1</SPAN><SPAN S_='07381AA8 
> 18'>	</SPAN><SPAN S_='07381AA8 1C'>
> </SPAN></S__>
> 
> 
> The style sheet is:
> 
> <?xml version='1.0'?>
> 
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> 	xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> 
> 	xmlns:taxo="urn:taxonomy-analysis:xslt"
> 	xmlns:saxon="http://icl.com/saxon"
> 	xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
> 	>
> 	<xsl:output method="text" encoding="UTF-8" indent="no"/>
> 
> 	<xsl:template match="/">
> 		<xsl:apply-templates 
> select="taxo:presentationTree/taxo:show"/>
> 	</xsl:template>
> 	<xsl:template match="taxo:show">
> 			<xsl:variable name="parentID" 
> select="ancestor::taxo:show[1]/@taxo:name"/>
> 
> 			<!--emit ID, position, depth, parent ID tuple-->
> 			<xsl:value-of select="@taxo:name"/>
> 			<xsl:text>	</xsl:text>
> 			<xsl:value-of select="@taxo:index"/>
> 			<xsl:text>	</xsl:text>
> 			<xsl:value-of select="@taxo:depth"/>
> 			<xsl:text>	</xsl:text>
> 			<xsl:if test="$parentID">
> 				<xsl:value-of select="$parentID"/>
> 			</xsl:if>
> 			<xsl:text>
> </xsl:text>
> 			<xsl:apply-templates select="taxo:show"/>
> 	</xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> 
> and the input is
> 
> <?xml version='1.0' ?>
> <taxo:presentationTree xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" 
> xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" 
> xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
> xmlns:link="http://www.xbrl.org/2001/XLink/xbrllinkbase" 
> xmlns:taxo="urn:taxonomy-analysis:xslt" 
> xmlns:saxon="http://icl.com/saxon" 
> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
> <taxo:show auto-ns1:name="usfr-gc_GeneralConcepts" 
> xmlns:auto-ns1="urn:taxonomy-analysis:xslt" auto-ns1:index="1" 
> auto-ns1:depth="1"><taxo:label xml:lang="en">US GAAP - Commercial and 
> Industrial</taxo:label></taxo:show></taxo:presentationTree>
> 
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