I refer you to my first response about namespaces.

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"CK" <c_kettenbach@h...> wrote in message 
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>I am trying to transform the follwing xml
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
> <ArrayOfString xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
> xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns="http://tempuri.org/">
> <string>blah blah blah</string>
> <string>blah blah blah</string>
> <string>blah blah blah</string>
> <string>blah blah blah</string>
> <string>blah blah blah</string>
> <string>blah blah blah</string>
> </ArrayOfString>
>
> Any ideas on getting this to work with the exisiting schema? Thanks for 
> your help.
> Cheers,
> ck
>
>
> "Joe Fawcett" <joefawcett@n...> wrote in message 
> news:DE46BE9C-D52F-448E-A6D1-A4F797FBD684@m......
>>
>>
>> "CK" <c_kettenbach@h...> wrote in message 
>> news:hHnik.5779$np7.5361@f......
>>> 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.
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML)
>> http://joe.fawcett.name
>>
>>
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