xslt: How to ignore apply-template elements for which there are no matches?

Question

This is my XSL stylesheet:

<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" 
                xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                xmlns:pp="passcodeProfile">

    <xsl:template match="/">
               <xsl:apply-templates select="elements"/>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="element1">
       output1
    </xsl:template> 

    <xsl:template match="element2">
       output2
    </xsl:template> 

</xsl:stylesheet>

And this is the input XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>

<elements>
    <element1>value1</element1>
    <element2>value2</element2>
    <element3>value3</element3>
    <element4>value4</element4>
</elements>

The current spreadsheet outputs the value of the non-matching elements (outputs element1 element2 value3 value 4). How to ignore elements that are not element1 and element2 (outputs element1 element2)?

Answer 1

Your stylesheet outputs the original text nodes as well. You can suppress them by matching them and doing nothing with them, e.g. add <xsl:template match="text()"/>