> the result i am getting now is like this
Not from upur posted code, you can't: it generates srcaddr elements
there can't be any address elements in the output.

Running your posted stylesheet on your posted input I get:


$ saxon ip.xml ip.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
                <networks>
                <network>
                <srcaddr>1.1.1.1</srcaddr>
                </network>
                <network>
                <srcaddr>2.3.1.2</srcaddr>
                </network>
                <network>
                <srcaddr>170.5.2.4</srcaddr>
                </network>
                </networks>

Note by the way your $newline is actually a newline and two tabs, hence
the strange indentaion in the result.

David

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