It doesn't get any simpler than this.

I'm really struggling with XSL, so I've gone back to trying to understand the very basics. I have an XML file in it with names, address, etc, and when I do the following, in addition to "telephone" coming back with the bracketed elements, which I want, ALL the other content of the source XML file is coming back as text. Why? Aren't I just asking it to match "telephone"?

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xslutput method="xml" indent="yes" />

<xsl:template match="telephone">
<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

templates
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1.
if u use "match" template <xsl:template match="telephone">

u have to use apply template
<xsl:apply-templates select="//telephone"/>- to apply the template
as shown below in the example

(or)

2. if u use - <xsl:template name="telephone">
u have to use <xsl:call-template name="telephone"/>
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<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xslutput method="xml" indent="yes" />


<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates select="//telephone"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="//telephone">
<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
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hope fully this is what u required..however if u give xml .. also it can be explained easily...
thank u
with regards
niha

hi frank
provide ur xml also ..so that i can try to figure it out.
bcoz it is bit unclear to give correct solution
thank u
niha

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xslutput method="html" indent="yes" encoding="UTF-8" omit-xml-declaration="yes" doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"/>


<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates select="//telephone"/>
</xsl:template>


<xsl:template match="telephone">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
<br/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
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hope the above code helps u
as far as i know... even u match the template... u have to apply the template with relevant tag - as shown above
hope that is what u r looking for
with regards
niha