xml source

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

  <AA id="a1">  A1 </AA>  
  <AA id="a2">  A2 </AA>  
  <AA id="a3">  A3 </AA>  
  <AA id="a4">  A4 </AA>  
    

</root>

xslt 1: without for-each

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

  <xsl:template match="/root/AA">
    matched
	</xsl:template>
	


</xsl:stylesheet>

output 1

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

  
    matched
	  
  
    matched
	  
  
    matched
	  
  
    matched

xslt 2 using for-each

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:for-each select="root/AA">
      matched
    </xsl:for-each>
	</xsl:template>
	


</xsl:stylesheet>

output 2

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