xsl: it prints without any command

Hi,

i am pretty new to xsl and i ran into this weird problem.
To me it's so weird it's even hard to describe.
The xsl file prints the value of the following 2 xml nodes without any command.
<superuser>TRUE</superuser>
<admin>TRUE</admin>
The page prints TRUETRUE and then follows the rest of the html and i havent got a clue why it prints those 2 values.
This is xml and this is the xsl

Thanks,

Sarnix

I don't really have an explanation why, but this is what you need to do:

add the following template:


and change the other template:

I think that if you don't match the XML document root (different than your document element) then the XSL uses a default template that matches textual element data and prints it out.

I will look at the spec and try to see if this is accurate.

while i agree that it's a good idea to start with a match of root (it just gives you more control) i'm pretty sure that xsl is not using a "default" template that will print the text of nodes out.

there has to be another, valid, reason as to why this is happening.

Here are the builtin (default) template rules for XSLT1. See section 5.8 of the specification for full details.

<xsl:template match="*|/">
<xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="@*|text()">
<xsl:value-of select=".">
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="comment()|processing-instruction()"/>

Note the builtin template rule for copying text and attribute nodes.

Booyah! Thanks fpmurphy for the post ... I will now have babies with you.