> <xsl:apply-templates select="//publicCommentNodes"/>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="//commentHolder/WMSForwardMessage"/>

Here you tell the processor to handle the publicCommentNodes before the
commentHolder. Place them in one with UNION-operator:

<xsl:apply-templates select="//publicCommentNodes |
//commentHolder/WMSForwardMessage"/>

One comment to this: In general try to avoid '//', specify the path more
explicitely:

<xsl:apply-templates select="/Models/CommentContainer/publicCommentNodes |
/Models/CommentContainer/commentHolder/WMSForwardMessage"/>

Regards,

Joerg


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