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copied!<blockquote> <p>However, during XLST, the <code><i></code> tag gets ignored, so "Star Wars" is not italicized in the HTML output. Is there a relatively simple way to fix this?</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Your problem is here</strong>:</p> <blockquote> <pre><code><ul> <xsl:for-each select="favoriteMovies/favoriteMovie"> <li><xsl:value-of select="."/></li> </xsl:for-each> </ul> </code></pre> </blockquote> <p>The <strong><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xslt-19991116#value-of" rel="noreferrer"><code><xsl:value-of></code></a></strong> instruction is used to create a text node. In doing so it copies to the output the string value of the XPath expression specified in the <code>select</code> attribute of this XSLT instruction. The string value of an element is the concatenation of all its text-node descendents.</p> <p>So this is how you get the reported output.</p> <p><strong>Solution</strong>:</p> <p><strong>Use the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xslt-19991116#copy-of" rel="noreferrer"><code><xsl:copy-of></code></a> instruction</strong>, which copies all the nodes that are specified in its <code>select</code> attribute:</p> <pre><code><ul> <xsl:for-each select="favoriteMovies/favoriteMovie"> <li><xsl:copy-of select="node()"/></li> </xsl:for-each> </ul> </code></pre> <p><strong>Another solution, more alligned with the principles of XSLT</strong> avoids using <code><xsl:for-each></code> at all:</p> <pre><code><xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/> <xsl:template match="/"> <html> <head /> <body> <xsl:apply-templates/> </body> </html> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="/*"> <ul> <xsl:apply-templates/> </ul> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="favoriteMovie"> <li><xsl:copy-of select="node()"/></li> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> </code></pre> <p><strong>When any of the two solutions defined above are applied to the provided XML document</strong>:</p> <pre><code><favoriteMovies> <favoriteMovie>the <i>Star Wars</i> saga </favoriteMovie> </favoriteMovies> </code></pre> <p><strong>the wanted, correct result is produced</strong>:</p> <pre><code><html> <head/> <body> <ul> <li>the <i>Star Wars</i> saga </li> </ul> </body> </html> </code></pre>

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