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File: Data.xml


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

File: Transform.xslt

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<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>
Output:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><b>Joe</b><b><i>Smith</i></b>