If your input is XHTML then the elements are in the XHTML namespace and you
need to specify this namespace when matching them.

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Rodgers [mailto:kevin.rodgers@xxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 29 June 2005 22:28
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  generate text for every descendant
> 
> My input is XHTML, and I want to generate a bit of text for every
> descendant of the body element.  But my stylesheet generates the same
> output as the default templates, which implies that my template never
> matches:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> 
> <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
>   xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> 
> <xsl:output method="text"/>
> 
> <xsl:template match="body//*">
>   <xsl:value-of select="concat('matched:', ., '&#x0A;')"/>
>   <xsl:copy>
>     <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
>   </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> This is so simple, yet I'm completely frustrated.  What am I doing
> wrong?
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Kevin