Symphony.

This is something I noticed and found strange, there may be a reason , work around, or more likely I'm just doing something wrong but I was hoping someone would maybe know a reason.

Anyway if I set my template match to something like

<xsl:template match="data/pages/entry">

then I get a weird garbled text output before my template, see attachment. It looks like the first couple xml nodes under params, in the debug.

but if I change it to just

<xsl:template match="data">

then it goes away and all is normal. Like I mentioned above I have no idea why it's like this but was hoping someone would have an explanation.

Thanks for any info.

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@jchamb - Watch this apply-templates screencast from @Allen. This should help you understand how to apply-templates.

When you don't have an explicit template that matches data but have it in a select of a apply-templates (like <xsl:apply-templates select="/data"/>) the default implicit templates get applied. And those return the text value, like

<xsl:template match="*|/">
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="text()|@*">
    <xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>

In other words, you are applying templates to a node that does not have a template defined for it. And then the implicit default templates get applied, which just return the text value.

Thanks Guys, Really appreciate the info.