RE: generate text for every descendant

If your input is XHTML then the elements are in the XHTML namespace and you
need to specify this namespace when matching them.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Rodgers [mailto:kevin.rodgers@xxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 29 June 2005 22:28
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  generate text for every descendant
> 
> My input is XHTML, and I want to generate a bit of text for every
> descendant of the body element.  But my stylesheet generates the same
> output as the default templates, which implies that my template never
> matches:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> 
> <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
>   xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> 
> <xsl:output method="text"/>
> 
> <xsl:template match="body//*">
>   <xsl:value-of select="concat('matched:', ., '&#x0A;')"/>
>   <xsl:copy>
>     <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
>   </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> This is so simple, yet I'm completely frustrated.  What am I doing
> wrong?
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Kevin