It might be a good idea to include a full stylesheet and source document.
You're clearly making some basic mistakes, but I can't tell what they are
from the information provided. (Sorry if you provided it earlier in the
thread.)

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nishi Bhonsle [mailto:nishi.bhonsle@xxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 22 February 2005 20:36
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  Adding element to xml snippet using xslt
> 
> 
> 
> David Carlisle wrote:
> 
> >a template only does anything if templates are applied to 
> the matching
> >node.
> >
> >you have
> >
> ><xsl:template match="abc:configuration/drillOutDir">
> >   <xsl:element name="drillOutDir">
> >      <xsl:value-of select="abc:configuration/drillOutDir"/>
> >   </xsl:element>
> >   </xsl:template>
> >
> >
> >but that will not do anything unless you apply templates to the
> >drillOutDir element.
> >
> >You need to use <xsl:apply-templates otherwise templates are not
> >applied.
> >
> Hi:
> I did include <xsl:apply-templates/> as follows, but it does 
> not yield 
> the 'drillOutDir' node in the output xml.
> 
> <xsl:template match="abc:configuration/drillOutDir">
>     <xsl:element name="drillOutDir">
>        <xsl:value-of select="abc:configuration/drillOutDir"/>
>     </xsl:element>
>     <xsl:apply-templates/>
>     </xsl:template>   
> 
> >
> >David
> >
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