It is certainly not an error, or even a warning, to have a template which matches something that doesn't happen to exist in this document -- all that means is that this template doesn't fire in this case, which is normal stylesheet operation. Presumably some other template does match, if this document is of a type that the stylesheet was intended to handle.
If you want to detect unexpected document types, you could write explicit tests in your "/" template. Evaluate the XPaths needed to perform that test, check whether the resulting nodesets are empty, and if so use xsl:message to report the problem. ______________________________________ "... Three things see no end: A loop with exit code done wrong, A semaphore untested, And the change that comes along. ..." -- "Threes" Rev 1.1 - Duane Elms / Leslie Fish ( http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/songs/threes-rev-11.html)
