Question

I have an XSL stylesheet that I use to create xHTML fragments. The XML contains lots of information and I only want to transform one particular section, I match this like so (note this is my top level/first match):

<xsl:template match="root/SystemInfo/Errors">

This works great, however, before my intended output I see 1001 being written out. Upon further inspection this is the data of various tags that preceed my matched xpath "root/SystemInfo/Errors". What can I do to prevent this from happening?

Example xml:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
    <Settings>
        <Enabled>1</Enabled>
        <Mode1>0</Mode1>
        <Mode2>0</Mode2>
        <Limit>1</Limit>
    </Settings>
    <SystemInfo>
        <Errors>
            <NOCONNECTION>1</NOCONNECTION>
        </Errors>
    </SystemInfo>
</root>

XML Playground setup here to show the effect.

Answer 1

Add

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

to override the default templates outputting text nodes or make sure you process only the stuff you are interested in with

<xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:apply-templates select="root/SystemInfo/Errors"/>
</xsl:template>