What is wrong with this simpe xslt ?

[tuka]

Hi,

I have a simple xslt problem from a tutorial and I am getting the
wrong result and makes no sense. This I'm sure is trivial but I just
need to catch the error... By the way I am using Oxygen xml editor
that does transforms to and I have suceesfully run samples from this
tutorial... http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian3/examples/08/

My XML file is:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<sample>
        <option value="Afghanistan" >Afghanistan</option>
        <option value="Albania" >Albania</option>
        <option value="Algeria" >Algeria</option>
        <option value="Andorra" >Andorra</option>
        <option value="Antigua and Barbuda" >Antigua and Barbuda</
option>
</sample>

My XSL file contains

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
 <xsl:template match="sample">
    <xsl:value-of select="option"/>
 </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Yet in my result I get only:

Afghanistan

My intended result is all 4 listed countries.

TIA

[Charles]

xsl:value-of grabs the text associated with the first elemet that matches the select. You want xsl:apply-templates.

[tuka]

Thanks that helped. Got it working so:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
 
 <xsl:template match="sample">
  <xsl:text> Top header</xsl:text>
  
  <xsl:apply-templates></xsl:apply-templates>
 </xsl:template>
 
 <xsl:template match="option">
  <xsl:text> Prefix text: </xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="."/>  </xsl:template>
 
</xsl:stylesheet>