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Contents of the original elements can be recovered from the original sources in two basic ways. XSLT stylesheet 1 uses xsl:value-of construct. In this case the contents of the element is used without any further processing. The instruction xsl:apply-templates in XSLT stylesheet 2 is different. The parser further processes selected elements, for which a template is defined.

XSLT stylesheet 1

XML Source
<source>

<employee>
     <firstName>Joe</firstName>
     <surname>Smith</surname>
</employee>

</source>

Output
<b>
Joe
Smith
</b>

HTML view
Joe Smith
XSLT stylesheet
<xsl:stylesheet version = '1.0'
     xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'>

<xsl:template match="employee">
     <b>
          <xsl:value-of select="."/>
     </b>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="surname">
     <i>
          <xsl:value-of select="."/>
     </i>
</xsl:template>


</xsl:stylesheet>


XSLT stylesheet 2

XML Source
<source>

<employee>
     <firstName>Joe</firstName>
     <surname>Smith</surname>
</employee>

</source>

Output
<b>Joe</b>
<b>
  <i>Smith</i>
</b>

HTML view
Joe Smith
XSLT stylesheet
<xsl:stylesheet version = '1.0'
     xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'>

<xsl:template match="employee">
     <b>
          <xsl:apply-templates select="firstName"/>
     </b>
     <b>
          <xsl:apply-templates select="surname"/>
     </b>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="surname">
     <i>
          <xsl:value-of select="."/>
     </i>
</xsl:template>


</xsl:stylesheet>