alpman

Thanks for your answers. After playing around a little more I think I understood it now.

Thanks for your answer but why this: Why isn't it enough to write <xsl:apply-templates select="svg:rect"/> since I try to match the root node in the first template?

I'm trying to transform a SVG-file into another XML-file using XSLT and the C# class XslCompiledTransform. This is my SVG <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd"> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:ev="http://www.w3.org/2001/xml-events" version="1.1" baseProfile="full" width="800mm" height="600mm"><rect x="10" y="10" width="90" height="40" /></svg> This is my C#-Code static void Main(string[] args) { string xmlSource = args[0]; string xmlOutput = args[1]; string xsltFile = args[2]; // if xslt or soure contains a DTD: XmlReaderSettings xmlReadSet = new XmlReaderSettings(); xmlReadSet.DtdProcessing = DtdProcessing.Parse; xmlReadSet.ValidationType = ValidationType.Schema; XslCompiledTransform xslt = new XslCompiledTransform(); // XmlWriterSettings xmlWriteSet = new XmlWriterSettings(); xmlWriteSet.ConformanceLevel = ConformanceLevel.Auto; // xslt.Load(xsltFile); xslt.Transform(XmlReader.Create(xmlSource, xmlReadSet), XmlWriter.Create(xmlOutput, xmlWriteSet)); } And this is my XSLT <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" exclude-result-prefixes="msxsl"> <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" indent="yes" encoding="utf-8" omit-xml-declaration="no"/> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:element name="Redlining"> <xsl:attribute name="hash">???</xsl:attribute> <xsl:attribute name="version">4.1</xsl:attribute> <xsl:element name="BoundingBox"> <xsl:attribute name="xMin">???</xsl:attribute> <xsl:attribute name="yMin">???</xsl:attribute> <xsl:attribute name="xMax">???</xsl:attribute> <xsl:attribute name="yMax">???</xsl:attribute> </xsl:element> <xsl:element name="GeometryHolder" /> <xsl:apply-templates select="rect"/> </xsl:element> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="rect"> <xsl:element name="RectangleHolder"> <xsl:element name="Sector"> <xsl:attribute name="type">sector</xsl:attribute> <xsl:element name="Coordinate"> <xsl:attribute name="x"> <xsl:value-of select="@x + @width"/> </xsl:attribute> </xsl:element> </xsl:element> </xsl:element> </xsl:template></xsl:stylesheet> And this is what I get <Redlining hash="???" version="4.1"><BoundingBox xMin="???" yMin="???" xMax="???" yMax="???" /><GeometryHolder /></Redlining> As you can see the template "rect" is omitted. I got the advice to use this ... <xsl:apply-templates select=".//*[local-name()='rect']"/> ... ... <xsl:template match="*[local-name()='rect']"> ... Then I get what I want. But I don't understand what is wrong with my attempt since it seems that all the tutorials do it like my attempt. Or am I missing something? Thanks for reading, Stefan