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Asked: 2026-06-15T17:08:23+00:00

I have XML data and am trying to use XSL to format the data.

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I have XML data and am trying to use XSL to format the data. I am following some tutorials. When previewing the XML in Internet Explorer the data is on one line; when previewing with Firefox I get the error message:

Error loading stylesheet: Parsing an XSLT stylesheet failed.

Here the XML: 

 <?xml version= "1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="style.xsl"?>
    <countries>
        <country> 
            <countryname>United States</countryname>
        </country>

        <country>
            <countryname>United Kingdom</countryname>
        </country>

        <country>
            <countryname>Deutschland</countryname>
        </country>

        <country>
            <countryname>Osterreich</countryname>
        </country>

        <country>
            <countryname>Espana</countryname>
        </country>

        <country>
            <countryname>France</countryname>
        </country>

        <country>
            <countryname>Italia</countryname>
        </country>

        <country>
            <countryname>China</countryname>
        </country>

        <country>
            <countryname>Hong Kong</countryname>
        </country>

        <country>
            <countryname>Japan</countryname>
        </country>

        <country>
            <countryname>Singapore</countryname>
        </country>

        <country>
            <countryname>Taiwan</countryname>
        </country>

        <country>
            <countryname>Malaysia</countryname>
        </country>
    </countries>

Here is the XSL:

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:template match="/countries">
<html>
<body>

    <xsl:for-each select="country"

    <xsl:value-of select="countryname"/><br/>

    </xsl:for-each>

</body>
</html>


</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylsheet>

Why does the browser not display the XML document as described by the XSL template?

Thank you!

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  1. Editorial Team

    Missing Bracket

    <xsl:for-each select="country" must be <xsl:for-each select="country">.

    Note the closing >.

    Extra Space

    Also, you may wish to remove the leading spaces on the first line of the document, if they exist:

     <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

    vs

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

    Typo

    </xsl:stylsheet> must be </xsl:stylesheet>

    After making these changes, the list of countries appear.

    Debugging

    Consider editing XML and XSL using a text editor that has syntax highlighting and would alert you visually to such errors.

    Syntax Highlighted Example

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