"CK" <c_kettenbach@h...> wrote in message 
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> This works with the old namespace just fine.
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl">
>    <xsl:template match='/'>
>         <div>
>             <xsl:apply-templates 
> select='ArrayOfString'></xsl:apply-templates>
>         </div>
>     </xsl:template>
>     <xsl:template match='ArrayOfString'>
>         <xsl:apply-templates select='string'></xsl:apply-templates>
>     </xsl:template>
>     <xsl:template match='string'>
>         <div>
>             <span><xsl:value-of select="."/></span>
>         </div>
>     </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
>
>
> but when I use the current namespace
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
> version="1.0">
>    <xsl:template match='/'>
>        <div>
>            <xsl:apply-templates 
> select='ArrayOfString'></xsl:apply-templates>
>         </div>
>     </xsl:template>
>     <xsl:template match='ArrayOfString'>
>         <xsl:apply-templates select='string'></xsl:apply-templates>
>     </xsl:template>
>     <xsl:template match='string'>
>         <div>
>             <span><xsl:value-of select="."/></span>
>         </div>
>     </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> the output fails and just gives me the processor instruction and one div 
> tag.
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><div></div>
>
> Am I doing something wrong? Any ideas how to make it work with the current 
> namespace?
>
> Thanks,
> ~CK
http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl is an older namespace for XSLPattern, an 
obsolete transformation technology that Microsoft invented before the 
current XSLT was finalised. It's very different to XSLT.
That being said I don't see anything terribly wrong with the actual 
transform although XSLPattern treated namespaced elements differently and I 
suspect your XML uses these. Take a look at 
http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/N5536.html especially numbers 13 and 23 
and if that doesn't help show the XML you're trying to transform.

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Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML)
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