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Asked: 2026-05-25T21:31:55+00:00

I’m just learning XML and XSL, so please bear with me if this is

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I’m just learning XML and XSL, so please bear with me if this is a stupid question. I can’t seem to find an easy answer to this, so I’m assuming I’m making a simple mistake that folks who write guides wouldn’t think to address.

I have the following XML (just a snippet, here), that I lifted from w3c for learning:

<catalog>My CD Collection
<cd>
<title>Empire Burlesque</title>
<artist>Bob Dylan</artist>
<country>USA</country>
<company>Columbia</company>
<price>10.90</price>
<year>1985</year>
</cd>
</catalog>

And then the following XSL:

    <xsl:template match="/">
    <html>
    <body>
    <xsl:for-each select="/">
    <h2><xsl:value-of select="catalog" /></h2>
    </xsl:for-each>
    <table border="1">
      <tr bgcolor="#9acd32">
        <th>Title</th>
        <th>Artist</th>
      </tr>
      <xsl:for-each select="catalog/cd">
      <tr>
        <td><xsl:value-of select="title" /></td>
        <td><xsl:value-of select="artist" /></td>
      </tr>
      </xsl:for-each>
    </table>
  </body>
  </html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

For some reason, the XSL is not reading the closing h2 tag and it’s not reading the opening table tag, rendering the entire thing into one huge heading.

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  1. Editorial Team
    <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<xsl:for-each select="/">
<h2><xsl:value-of select="catalog" /></h2>
</xsl:for-each>
<table border="1">
  <tr bgcolor="#9acd32">
    <th>Title</th>
    <th>Artist</th>
  </tr>
  <xsl:for-each select="catalog/cd">
  <tr>
    <td><xsl:value-of select="title" /></td>
    <td><xsl:value-of select="artist" /></td>
  </tr>
  </xsl:for-each>
</table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

    Try this. First you were outputing the complete catalog element to the header. Other than this you should probably add this : 

    <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>

    On the top of your sheet. The output is what you would expect : 

    <html>
 <body>
  <h2>My CD Collection

  </h2>
  <table border="1">
     <tr bgcolor="#9acd32">
        <th>Title</th>
        <th>Artist</th>
     </tr>
     <tr>
        <td>Empire Burlesque</td>
        <td>Bob Dylan</td>
     </tr>
  </table>
  </body>
</html>
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