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Asked: 2026-05-25T22:29:21+00:00

I’m just trying to create an example XML file with an XSL style sheet.

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I’m just trying to create an example XML file with an XSL style sheet. The problem is, when i parse the two files, i get a strange output.

here is the XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="mySchema.xsl"?>
<Artists>
  <Artist>
    <BandName>The Cure</BandName>
    <Albums>
      <Album>
        <AlbumTitle>Disintegration</AlbumTitle>
        <Tracks>
          <track>
            <Title>Plain Song</Title>
            <Order>1</Order>
            <Lenght>
              <min>5</min>
              <sec>12</sec>
            </Lenght>
          </track>
          <track>
            <Title>Pictures Of You</Title>
            <Order>2</Order>
            <Lenght>
              <min>7</min>
              <sec>24</sec>
            </Lenght>
          </track>
        </Tracks>
      </Album>
      <Album>
        <AlbumTitle>Wish</AlbumTitle>
        <Tracks>
          <track>
            <Title>A Letter To Elise</Title>
            <Order>4</Order>
            <Lenght>
              <min>5</min>
              <sec>14</sec>
            </Lenght>
          </track>
          <track>
            <Title>From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea</Title>
            <Order>2</Order>
            <Lenght>
              <min>7</min>
              <sec>45</sec>
            </Lenght>
          </track>
        </Tracks>
      </Album>
    </Albums>
  </Artist>

  <Artist>
    <BandName>The Pogues</BandName>
    <Albums>
      <Album>
        <AlbumTitle>If I Should Fall from Grace with God</AlbumTitle>
        <Tracks>
          <track>
            <Title>Fairytale of New York</Title>
            <Order>1</Order>
            <Lenght>
              <min>2</min>
              <sec>20</sec>
            </Lenght>
          </track>
          <track>
            <Title>Sit Down by the Fire</Title>
            <Order>13</Order>
            <Lenght>
              <min>4</min>
              <sec>10</sec>
            </Lenght>
          </track>
        </Tracks>
      </Album>
      <Album>
        <AlbumTitle>Peace And Love </AlbumTitle>
        <Tracks>
          <track>
            <Title>Young Ned Of The Hill</Title>
            <Order>3</Order>
            <Lenght>
              <min>2</min>
              <sec>45</sec>
            </Lenght>
          </track>
          <track>
            <Title>Boat Train</Title>
            <Order>11</Order>
            <Lenght>
              <min>2</min>
              <sec>40</sec>
            </Lenght>
          </track>
        </Tracks>
      </Album>
    </Albums>
  </Artist>
</Artists>

and here is the XSLT file:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:template match="Artist">
    <html>
      <body>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="BandName"/>
        <br></br>
      </body>
    </html>

  </xsl:template>
  <xsl:template match="BandName">
    <b>Found a band!</b>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

When i render the two, using visual studio ide, i can see how the XML file transformed to XHTML. the output looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
  <html><body><b>Found a band!</b><br /></body></html>

  <html><body><b>Found a band!</b><br /></body></html>

When i look at this in the browser, its fine, but i’m not happy how the < html >< body >< /body >< /html > is displayed more that once. What am i doing wrong?

thanks
jason

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  1. Editorial Team

    Your match="Artist" template is getting applied twice because there are two Artist in your source document. This is what’s resulting in two html elements in the result tree.

    Try using this slightly modified version of your stylesheet:

    <?xml version="1.0" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:template match="Artists">
    <html>
      <body>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="Artist"/>
        <br></br>
      </body>
    </html>    
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="Artist">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="BandName"/>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="BandName">
    <b>Found a band!</b>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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