Yes, I was getting a different result, but I think I've figured out
the problem. I had both 32 and 64 bit versions of libxslt installed.
When I deleted the 32 bit version, the transformation completes
successfully.

Thanks for all the help troubleshooting!

Nathan

On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Nathan Tallman wrote:
>>
>> Sorry, here's my XSLT (remove.xsl):
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0"?>
>> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>>     xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>>     xmlns:s="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
>>     exclude-result-prefixes="s"
>>>
>>>
>>
>>     <xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
>>
>>     <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
>>
>>     <!-- Standard copy -->
>>     <xsl:template match="*">
>>         <xsl:copy>
>>             <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
>>             <xsl:apply-templates/>
>>         </xsl:copy>
>>     </xsl:template>
>>
>>     <xsl:template match="s:urlset/s:url[normalize-space(s:loc) = 'URL']"/>
>>
>> </xsl:stylesheet>
>>
>> XML Snippet (sitemap1.xml):
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>> <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
>>      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>>      xsi:schemaLocation="
>>      http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9
>>      http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd">
>>
>>      <url>
>>           <loc>URL</loc>
>>           <lastmod>2012-06-23T13:37:27+00:00</lastmod>
>>           <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
>>           <priority>1.0</priority>
>>      </url>
>>      ....
>> </urlset>
>>
>> Command used in Linux:
>> xsltproc -o sitemapb.xml remove.xsl sitemap1.xml
>
>
> When I run xsltproc here on the command line with your samples I get
>
>
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="
>    http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9
>  http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd">
>     ....
> </urlset>
>
> so that element has been removed.
>
> Are you getting a different result?
>
> I tried with
>
> Using libxml 20707, libxslt 10126 and libexslt 815
> xsltproc was compiled against libxml 20706, libxslt 10126 and libexslt 815
> libxslt 10126 was compiled against libxml 20706
> libexslt 815 was compiled against libxml 20706
>
> on Windows.
>
>
>
>
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>
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