Yves, Thanks for your reply. I tried that and it doesn't work. I realize now
that this might be an issue related to the parser I'm using.

I'm performing the transformation using Microsoft .NET v1.1 XslTransform
objects. There might be a specific setting I have to look for in their
documentation.

Thanks!
George

"Yves Boyer" <yboyerNOSPAM@t...> wrote in message
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> Hi George !
>
> I wrote poésieB.xml as :
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> <!--With "C:\Program Files\XML NotePad\poésie2.str"-->
>
> <poem>
>    <author>Lamartine</author>
>    <date>XIXème siècle</date>
>    <title>Le Lac</title>
> </poem>
> ---------------------
> Then testA.xsl as :
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> version="1.0">
>    <xsl:output method="text" encoding="ISO-8859-1"/>
>  <xsl:template match="/">
> &lt;George Durzi&gt;
>  </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> ---------------------
> And when I transformed poésieB.xml with testA.xsl I obtained poésieB.txt
as
> :
>
> <George Durzi>
>
> ----------------------
> Did you forget to specify <xsl:output method="text"> in your xsl file ?
>
> Yves Boyer
>
>