Ari,
I am new to XSL, so there may be better ways,
but I would put the "year" and "owner" template matches in, but leave
them empty as below,

<xsl:template match="vehicles">
	<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="vehicle">
	<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>


<xsl:template match="make">
  <b><xsl:apply-templates/></b>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="model">
  <i><xsl:apply-templates/></i>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="year"></xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="owner"></xsl:template>

>Ari wrote to ask why this XML/XSl combination didn't ony output the
make and model:
>
><vehicles>
>	<vehicle>
>		<make>Mazda</make>
>		<model>Miata</model>
>		<year>1990</year>
>		<owner>
>
>			<e-mail>ari@xxxxxxx</e-mail>
>		</owner>
>	</vehicle>
>	<vehicle>
>		<make>Porsche</make>
>		<model>Boxster</model>
>		<year>1998</year>
>		<owner>
>			<name>Svetlana Soboleva</name>
>		</owner>
>	</vehicle>
></vehicles>
>
>=================================================================
>== stylesheet
>
><xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>                version="1.0">
>
><xsl:template match="make">
>  <b><xsl:apply-templates/></b>
></xsl:template>
>
><xsl:template match="model">
>  <i><xsl:apply-templates/></i>
></xsl:template>
>
></xsl:stylesheet>
>
>=================================================================
>== result
>
><b>Mazda</b>
><i>Miata</i>
>1990
>        Konstantin Krupnikov
>        ari@xxxxxxx
><b>Porsche</b>
><i>Boxster</i>
>1998
>        Svetlana Soboleva
>
>


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