Hi,

I am currently working on a XML file that was made using Adobe Acrobat which 
includes meta data at the top of the XML file. Some how some of the RDF data 
is still getting printed into the output XML. Given this following example 
any idea why this is happening?



[Input XML]

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

<!-- Created from PDF via Acrobat SaveAsXML -->

<!-- Mapping Table version: 28-February-2003 -->

<TaggedPDF-doc>

<?xpacket begin='o;?' id='W5M0MpCehiHzreSzNTczkc9d'?>

<?xpacket begin="o;?" id="W5M0MpCehiHzreSzNTczkc9d"?>

<x:xmpmeta xmlns:x="adobe:ns:meta/" x:xmptk="3.1-702">

  <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">

     <rdf:Description rdf:about="321" 
xmlns:xap="http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/">

        <xap:ModifyDate>2008-12-19T17:06:41Z</xap:ModifyDate>

        <xap:CreateDate>2008-12-19T17:06:33Z</xap:CreateDate>

        <xap:MetadataDate>2008-12-19T17:06:41Z</xap:MetadataDate>

        <xap:CreatorTool>dvipsk 5.58f Copyright 1986, 1994 Radical Eye 
Software</xap:CreatorTool>

     </rdf:Description>

     <rdf:Description rdf:about=""

           xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">

        <dc:format>xml</dc:format>

        <dc:title>

           <rdf:Alt>

              <rdf:li 
xml:lang="x-default">/usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/publish/192.168.254.87/FD/OCPSFD.dvi</rdf:li>

           </rdf:Alt>

        </dc:title>

     </rdf:Description>

     <rdf:Description rdf:about=""

           xmlns:xapMM="http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/">

        <xapMM:DocumentID>uuid:b5e77b3b-5715-4d2d-ad3d-ae314366f52a</xapMM:DocumentID>

        <xapMM:InstanceID>uuid:821887b0-f4c7-4a40-83f7-f0d17f0f9126</xapMM:InstanceID>

     </rdf:Description>

     <rdf:Description rdf:about=""

           xmlns:pdf="http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/">

        <pdf:Producer>Acrobat Distiller 7.0.5 (Windows)</pdf:Producer>

     </rdf:Description>

  </rdf:RDF>

</x:xmpmeta>

<?xpacket end="w"?>

 <?xpacket end='r'?>



<Part>
[... CUT ...]

[The XSL file]

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
version="1.0">

 <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" encoding="UTF-8" version="1.0" />



	<xsl:template match="TaggedPDF-doc/Part">
		<course>
			<xsl:apply-templates select="Sect"> </xsl:apply-templates>
		</course>
	</xsl:template>
[... CUT ...]

[Output XML]

<?xml version="1.0" 
encoding="UTF-8"?>2008-12-19T17:06:41Z2008-12-19T17:06:33Z2008-12-19T17:06:41Zdvipsk 
5.58f Copyright 1986, 1994 Radical Eye 
Softwarexml/usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/publish/192.168.254.87/FD/OCPSFD.dviuuid:b5e77b3b-5715-4d2d-ad3d-ae314366f52auuid:821887b0-f4c7-4a40-83f7-f0d17f0f9126Acrobat 
Distiller 7.0.5 (Windows)

<course>

[... CUT ...]



Graeme