p.lepin@c... wrote:
> Since you failed to mention what you're using for
> processing

I'm using a .NET 2.0 XMLDataSource. I point it to my xml-file and my 
xslt-file.

>, I assume it's some XSLT 1.0-compliant
> processor.
>
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>> <levelone>
>> <child ID="1" sort="5"><name>Paul</name></child>
>> <child ID="2" sort="1"><name>Adam</name></child>
>> <child ID="3" sort="2"><name>Will</name></child>
>> <root>
>
> That's not an XML file. It's not well-formed.

Yes. A typo in my posting. The last element "root" should have been 
"levelone"


>> I've been searching for hours, but all the examples I
>> have seen creates an HTML file.
>
> That's mighty strange, especially since XML is the
> default output method.

And now I found out why. I had (from one of the examples I found) learned 
that I could also put an instruction in the XML document that said to always 
use a specific XSL-file. Something along the lines of : <xsl-stylesheet 
output="htm/txt">
Removing that line made the output into XML.

> Presuming you meant something like:
>
> <levelone>
> <child ID="1" sort="5"><name>Paul</name></child>
> <child ID="2" sort="1"><name>Adam</name></child>
> <child ID="3" sort="2"><name>Will</name></child>
> </levelone>

I did.

> The following XSLT should do the trick:

And it did. Thx a heap. Now I can start to find out why :-)

/jim