help, when I include <xsl:apply-templates/> the XSLTProcessor only strips the XML tags and outputs the text see result --------------cut here result-------------- <html> <head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head> <body><pre> Hyalearl, 100-ton Sulieman-Class Scout/Courier 2008 03 10 All rights reserved 2008 Onno Meyer none@xxxxxxxx 10 Traveller 1.0 </pre></body> </html> -------------cut here------------------ ------------cut here vehicle.php---------- <?php $xslDoc = new DOMDocument(); $xslDoc->load("vehicle.xsl"); $xmlDoc = new DOMDocument(); $xmlDoc->load("vehicle.xml"); $proc = new XSLTProcessor(); $proc->importStylesheet($xslDoc); echo $proc->transformToXML($xmlDoc); ?> --------------cut here--------------------- --------------cut here vehicle.xsl--------- <?xml version="1.0" ?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:template match="/"> <html> <head> </head> <body> <pre> <xsl:apply-templates/> </pre> </body> </html> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="meta"> <!-- meta --> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> --------------cut here--------------------- --------------cut here vehicle.xml--------- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <vehicle id="1" xmlns="http://localhost/gurps/ns/"> <meta> <title>Hyalearl, 100-ton Sulieman-Class Scout/Courier</title> <date> <year>2008</year> <month>03</month> <day>10</day> </date> <copyright>All rights reserved 2008</copyright> <author>Onno Meyer</author> <email>none@xxxxxxxx</email> <TL>10</TL> <background>Traveller</background> <version>1.0</version> </meta> </vehicle> --------------cut here--------------------- tom_a_sparks Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Make Yahoo!7 your homepage and win a trip to the Quiksilver Pro. Find out more -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php