RE: Newbie Q: Why are element contents being passed th

Hi,

> I have an xml source doc which I want to turn into an xhtml document 
> with a form, inputs, labels and so forth. What is happening 
> is that the 
> contents of the elements in the xml document are turning up in the 
> output and I can't understand why. I have simplified the xml 
> and the xsl 
> until there is almost nothing happening, and the element 
> contents still 
> come through.

In your stylesheet you have

  <xsl:apply-templates/>

which means

  <xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>

see <http://www.w3.org/tr/xslt#section-Applying-Template-Rules>. Thus, you're also processing text nodes--select only the nodes you want to process.

Still, that's not the problem here, but rather that you have template only for "rateshop" and "form" elements. In the template for "form" you process all child nodes, and in the absence of templates for the child elements of form, the build-in templates kick in--see <http://www.w3.org/tr/xslt#built-in-rule>. The build in templates output all descendant text nodes in your case.

> What can I do? Any help will be appreciated. (And if there is 
> any way to 
> deal with the bizarre spacing in the output document that would be 
> appreciated too!)

Strip the unneeded whitespace from the source tree and add indentation to the output--see <http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#strip> and <http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#output>.

Cheers,

Jarno - C-Drone Defect: Psycho2vii

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