Question

I’m looking for a way to output this code as html.

<legal>
  <heading>Poo</heading>
  <g>fart <a href="http://www.bclaws.ca/EPLibraries/bclaws_new/document/ID/freeside/96165_01">Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act</a> (RSBC 1996 ch. 165):</g>
  <foo>
    <bar>a </bar>
    <bar>b </bar>
    <bar>c </bar>
    <bar>d </bar>
    <bar>e </bar>
    <bar>f </bar>
  </foo>
  <g> faf </g>
  <g> faf </g>
  <g> faf </g>
  <g> faf </g>
  <g> faf </g>
  <g> faf </g>
  <g> faf </g>
    <foo>
      <bar> a </bar>
      <bar> b </bar>
      <bar> c </bar>
    </foo>
  <g> asfd </g>
  <g> asfd </g>
  <g> asfd </g>
  <g> asfd </g>
  <g> asfd </g>
  <g> asfd </g>
  <g> asfd </g>
    <foo>
      <bar> a </bar>
      <bar> b </bar>
      <bar> c </bar>
    </foo>
</legal>

Here is my XSLT so far… I cannot seem to output each and every g element within the p tags… it only seems to output it once and never again. Also, I seem to only be outputting the same thing twice… Where am I going wrong?

<xsl:variable name="legal" select="document('legal.xml')/legal"/>
  <xsl:for-each select="$legal/heading">
    <h3><xsl:value-of select="$legal/heading"/></h3>
    <p><xsl:value-of select="$legal/g"/></p>
      <ul>
        <xsl:for-each select="$legal/foo/bar">
          <li><xsl:value-of select="."/></li>
        </xsl:for-each>
      </ul>
  </xsl:for-each>

Answer 1

I’d suggest replacing the entire code fragment you’ve shown with this:

<xsl:apply-templates select="document('legal.xml')/legal" />

and adding these templates:

<xsl:template match="heading">
  <h3><xsl:apply-templates /></h3>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="g">
  <p><xsl:apply-templates /></p>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="foo">
  <ul>
    <xsl:apply-templates />
  </ul>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="bar">
  <li><xsl:apply-templates /></li>
</xsl:template>

The reason you’re getting duplicates at the moment is because you’re iterating over each header, and then in each iteration of that loop, you’re processing the same g element, and iterating over the same foo elements, regardless of which header they’re after. In both your source and the html output, g/p elements are not children of header/h3 elements, it doesn’t make sense to treat them as such in your code.