Hi,

I’ve encountered some behaviour that I can’t understand in a transformation that I’m currently engaged on.  The transformations are all pretty simple and follow the same pattern, but with just a few of them I’m getting odd results where the element text is not being output.

For example, in one case I have the following xsl:

…

…

<!-- Instance -->
<xsl:for-each select="Instance">
<Instance>
<NUMHUS>
<xsl:value-of select="NUMHUS/text()"/>
</NUMHUS>
<REDUCEDI>
<xsl:attribute name="codeListAgencyName">
<xsl:text>HESA</xsl:text>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="codeListName">
<xsl:text>REDUCEDI</xsl:text>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="languageID">
<xsl:text>en</xsl:text>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:value-of select="REDUCEDI/text()"/>
</REDUCEDI>
<COURSEID>
<xsl:value-of select="COURSEID/text()"/>
</COURSEID>
…

The source document has the following:

<Instance>
<NUMHUS>000001075369710892  </NUMHUS>
<personal_id>02002538</personal_id>
<REDUCEDI>00</REDUCEDI>

…
<COURSEID>62105201                      </COURSEID>

…

(Note that <personal_id> is not transferred to the output document)

The destination document gives:

<Instance>
<NUMHUS>000001070027710892  </NUMHUS>
<REDUCEDI codeListAgencyName="HESA" codeListName="REDUCEDI" languageID="en"/>
<COURSEID>53705101                      </COURSEID>
  …

My problem is the <REDUCEDI> element.  I don’t understand why it hasn’t taken the text ‘00’ into the destination document as I was expecting.

I’ve got what I take to be the same problem elsewhere, so I’m hoping that solving it here will give the solution elsewhere as well.

Thanks in advance

Peter