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my xml-to-xml transformation is outputting an xml header and then just
text like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>e19dbb7b-5529-43a0......

I've searched regarding this problem and it seems that if there's no
match in your xsl template then by default everything gets spat out.

But I've tested this with very definite matches in my template, and
still there are no xml tags in the output.

Has anyone seen this before? Any help much appreciated....

Yannick

yannicklaclau wrote:

> my xml-to-xml transformation is outputting an xml header and then just
> text like this:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>e19dbb7b-5529-43a0......
>
> I've searched regarding this problem and it seems that if there's no
> match in your xsl template then by default everything gets spat out.
>
> But I've tested this with very definite matches in my template, and
> still there are no xml tags in the output.
>
> Has anyone seen this before?

We do not need to guess, try to reduce to the minimum necessary to show
the problem, then post the relevant XML and XSLT here, and tell us which
XSLT processor you use.


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Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

Ok, false alarm.

As I suspected, it was a newbie issue. In case anyone else has this
problem, the solution is to use copy-of instead of value-of. Pretty
self-explanatory: value-of will output the value of the matched node;
copy-of will output a complete copy of the matched node, including the
tags.