When people come to this list and say that a template isn't matching when
they expect it to, the most common reason is that the elements are in a
namespace (typically a default namespace). You haven't shown us the source
document, so that's just a guess.

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



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Bowditch [mailto:bowditch_chris@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 06 September 2005 16:38
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Template priority problem
> 
> I have a requirement to copy a source XML input file but 
> adjust just a 
> couple of elements in the file. I thought this would be real 
> simple but 
> I can't get it to work. I have two templates, one specific to match 
> elements I want to change and a identity transform one. Here 
> is the XSL 
> I have:
> 
> <xsl:template match="field" priority="2">
> 	<xsl:variable name="fieldindex" select="@index"/>
> 	<xsl:variable name="fieldname" 
> select="ancestor::dataSet/fielddefinition[$fieldindex]/@label"/>
> 	<field>
> 		<xsl:value-of select="."/>
> 	</field>
> </xsl:template>
> <xsl:template match="* | comment() | text() | 
> processing-instruction() | 
> @*" priority="1">
> 	<xsl:copy>
> 		<xsl:apply-templates select="* | comment() | text() | 
> processing-instruction() | @*"/>
> 	</xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> The problem is the template that matches field elements is always 
> ignored, despite the higher priority! So I just get an exact 
> copy of the 
> input XML. Can someone explain why this is and offer a simple 
> solution 
> to my requirement.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chris