xslt - Select from within a fileliste of xml -

i use xslt 2.0 transform xml data xml files. created xsl find filenames in folder, worked fine:

filenames.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <filelist>    <file>birds2014.xml</file>    <file>birds2013.xml</file> </filelist> 

then created xsl search within xml-files select names of birds located in tag <spbird> in documents.

    <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/xsl/transform"     xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/xmlschema" exclude-result-prefixes="xs" version="2.0">     <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>     <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>  <xsl:template match="*">         <xsl:apply-templates/>          <xsl:variable name="files" select="document('filelist.xml')/filelist/file"/>             <xsl:element name="birdname">                 <xsl:for-each select="document($files)">                         <xsl:value-of select="//spbird">                     </xsl:value-of>                 </xsl:for-each>             </xsl:element>       </xsl:template> 

result:

<birdname>papagei wellensittich pfau</birdname> <birdname>papagei wellensittich pfau</birdname> <birdname>papagei wellensittich pfau</birdname> <birdname>papagei wellensittich pfau</birdname> <birdname>papagei wellensittich pfau</birdname> <birdname>papagei wellensittich pfau</birdname> <birdname>papagei wellensittich pfau</birdname> <birdname>papagei wellensittich pfau</birdname> <birdname>papagei wellensittich pfau</birdname> 

expected:

<birdname>papagei</birdname> <birdname>wellensittich</birdname> <birdname>pfau</birdname> 

can help?

edit changed

 <xsl:template match="*"> 

to

   <xsl:template match="/"> 

which resolves issue of same result showing 9 times (where did number came from).

now result is:

<birdname>papagei wellensittich</birdname> <birdname>pfau</birdname> 

pfau bird in second xml file. problem is, document() seems for-each on it's own. not birds listed seperately in birdname tag..

    <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/xsl/transform"     xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/xmlschema" exclude-result-prefixes="xs" version="2.0">     <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>     <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>  <xsl:template match="*">         <xsl:apply-templates/>          <xsl:variable name="files" select="document('filelist.xml')/filelist/file"/>                  <xsl:for-each select="document($files)">                           <birdname>                           <xsl:value-of select="//spbird">                        </birdname>                     </xsl:value-of>                 </xsl:for-each>             </xsl:element>       </xsl:template> 

try putting element inside of xsl:for-each...

<xsl:for-each select="document($files)">         <birdname>         <xsl:value-of select="//spbird"/>                 </birdname> </xsl:for-each> 

note: unless you're trying dynamically build element name, there's no reason use xsl:element.

edit

in xslt 2.0, xsl:value-of give every value of spbird. instead of xsl:for-each on document, should for-each on spbird. try changing xsl:for-each example below. if doesn't work, please add example of bird files question.

<xsl:for-each select="document($files)//spbird">         <birdname>         <xsl:value-of select="."/>                 </birdname> </xsl:for-each>