Well Ive got my new database exporting into an XML schema called MODS. I'm happy this works, really. anyway now the problem, I wanted to take the information stored in these xml documents and disply them as simple xhtml. this should be fairly simple via xslt, but i cant get the xml information to properly display. I've attached a extremely simplistic version of a MODS document, and a hacked version of a XSLT example from w3.org. can anybody point out where my error is (I'm kind of at an impasse and can't further develop my project until i get this XSLT happening.

thanks ahead,

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mods_xslt.zip

ok well no one is answering to my seemingly simple problem. So I will ask a mor eabstract one then. Does it make more sense to go directly from my database into my storage (MODS) and display mediums (XHTML)using to seperate transformations, instead of converting from fm7 to mods to xhtml?? or does it really not make much of a difference at all?