First point, it is never necessary to use disable-output-escaping="yes" when
using output method="text", because no escaping happens with method="text";
and it is never necessary to use it when outputting the text "=", because
that would not be escaped anyway (only & and < are escaped). It looks as if
you are using this attribute as magic fairy dust when you don't know what it
means.

The substantive point: the reason you get output for <ns1:Type2>please dont
print me</ns1:Type2> is that you don't have a template rule for this
element, and the default template rule causes output of the value of all its
text nodes. To suppress this, add the template rule

<xsl:template match="text()"/>

You led me down the garden path for a while by saying you wanted the output
Type2=value2, but I assume that was a typo. It wasted a lot of my time.

Regards,

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



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anders Viklund [mailto:viklund_anders@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 25 November 2009 14:22
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Transforming xml with any namespace
>
>
> Hi,
> I would like extract name=value for a specific element,for
> any namespace.
>
> How can I make this code work properly?
>
> Thanks for any ideas!
>
>
> XSL:
> <xsl:stylesheet
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> version="2.0"> <xsl:output method="text" /> <xsl:template match="/">
>   <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </xsl:template>
> <xsl:template match="//*[local-name()='Type1']">
>    <xsl:value-of select="local-name(.)"/> <xsl:text
> disable-output-escaping="yes">=</xsl:text> <xsl:value-of
> select="."/> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
>
> XML:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl"
> href="http://something"?><ns0:orderReq
> xmlns:ns0="http://somethingelse">
>     <ns1:order xmlns:ns1="http://nothing">
>         <ns1:orderItems>
>             <ns1:orderItem>
>                 <ns1:Type1>value1</ns1:Type1>
>                 <ns1:Type1>value2</ns1:Type1>
>                <ns1:Type2>please dont print me</ns1:Type2>
>             </ns1:orderItem>
>         </ns1:orderItems>
>     </ns1:order>
> </ns0:orderReq>
>
>
> OUTPUT:
>
>    
>        
>            
>                 Type1=value1
>                 Type1=value2
>                please dont print me
>            
>        
>    
>
>
> DESIRED OUTPUT:
> Type1=value1
> Type2=value2
>
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