Print in italic through XSL - xslt

I'm philologist and I just started to know this kind of syntax. I would like to recover name proper but under condition that whatever is in ex is printed in italics, how could I put it in the first column of this table?
This is the XML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-model href="http://www.tei-c.org/release/xml/tei/custom/schema/relaxng/tei_all.rng" type="application/xml" schematypens="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0"?>
<?xml-model href="http://www.tei-c.org/release/xml/tei/custom/schema/relaxng/tei_all.rng" type="application/xml"
schematypens="http://purl.oclc.org/dsdl/schematron"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="1.antroponimoscopia.xsl"?>
<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
<teiHeader>
<fileDesc>
<titleStmt>
<title>Title</title>
</titleStmt>
<publicationStmt>
<p>Publication Information</p>
</publicationStmt>
<sourceDesc>
<p>Information about the source</p>
</sourceDesc>
</fileDesc>
</teiHeader>
<text>
<body>
<pb n="001r"/>
<div1 type="book" n="01">
<div2 type="chapter" n="000">
<cb n="a"/>
<head> Capítulo 1 </head>
<ab> Este es el texto del capítulo 1 de la columna A del folio 1r y le pongo dos
nombrecitos <name type="proper">Don alfo<ex>ns</ex>so</name> y otro nombrecillo para no perdernos doña
<name type="proper">beatriz</name>
</ab>
</div2>
<div2 type="chapter" n="001">
<cb n="b"/>
<head>Capítulo II </head>
<ab>Este es el texto del capítulo II, que se encuentra en la columba B del folio 1r.
Y vamos a poner unos nombres: don <name type="proper">al<ex>fon</ex>so</name>, doña <name type="proper">Urraca</name>
</ab>
</div2>
<pb n="001v"/>
<div2 type="chapter" n="002">
<head>Capítulo III</head>
<ab> Este es el texto del capítulo 3. Vamos a poner tres nombres:
<name type="proper">Fer<ex>nan</ex>do</name>, <name type="proper">Le<ex>tic</ex>ia</name> e <name type="proper">I<ex>s</ex>a</name>
</ab>
</div2>
</div1>
</body>
</text>
</TEI>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"
xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
<xsl:output method="html"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<html lang="es">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
</head>
<body>
<h3 align="center">
<b>Antropónimos</b>
</h3>
<table width="750" border="1" align="center">
<tr>
<th scope="col" bgcolor="#00CCFF">
<div align="center">Nombre</div>
</th>
<th scope="col" bgcolor="#00CCFF">
<div align="center">Libro</div>
</th>
<th scope="col" bgcolor="#00CCFF">
<div align="center">Capítulo</div>
</th>
<th scope="col" bgcolor="#00CCFF">
<div align="center">Folio</div>
</th>
<th scope="col" bgcolor="#00CCFF">
<div align="center">Columna</div>
</th>
<th scope="col" bgcolor="#00CCFF">
<div align="center">Línea</div>
</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<xsl:for-each select="//tei:name[#type='proper']">
<div align="center">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</div>
</xsl:for-each>
</td>
<td>
<xsl:for-each select="//tei:name[#type='proper']">
<div align="center">
<xsl:value-of select="ancestor::tei:div1/#n"/>
</div>
</xsl:for-each>
</td>
<td>
<xsl:for-each select="//tei:name[#type='proper']">
<div align="center">
<xsl:value-of select="ancestor::tei:div2/#n"/>
</div>
</xsl:for-each>
</td>
<td>
<xsl:for-each select="tei:name[#type='proper']">
<div align="center">
<xsl:value-of select="preceding::tei:pb[#n][1]/#n"/>
</div>
</xsl:for-each>
</td>
<td>
<xsl:for-each select="//tei:name[#type='proper']">
<div align="center">
<xsl:value-of select="preceding::tei:cb[#n][1]/#n"/>
</div>
</xsl:for-each>
</td>
<td>
<xsl:for-each select="//tei:name[#type='proper']">
<div align="center">
<xsl:value-of select="preceding::tei:lb[#n][1]/#n"/>
</div>
</xsl:for-each>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Thanks!!


In general I would suggest to set up templates for the nodes you want to transform and for the name type="proper" elements you would use e.g.
<xsl:template match="tei:name[#type = 'proper']">
<div>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</div>
</xsl:template>
and for its ex children e.g.
<xsl:template match="tei:name[#type = 'proper']/tei:ex">
<em>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</em>
</xsl:template>
Keep in mind that XSLT is just a programming language used to transform XML to other formats, so it is not XSLT that determines any italic or other rendering, it is just used to produce the output you want, in your case it seems to be HTML, where the em element is supposed to give emphasis. You could also choose to use CSS instead. But if you want to transform to PDF you would need to use XSLT to generate the right XSL-FO element and the needed attributes.
A more complete example would be
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"
xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"
exclude-result-prefixes="tei">
<xsl:output method="html" version="5.0" doctype-system="about:legacy-comapat"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<html lang="es">
<head>
</head>
<body>
<h3 align="center">
<b>Antropónimos</b>
</h3>
<table width="750" border="1" align="center">
<thead>
<tr>
<th scope="col" bgcolor="#00CCFF">
<div align="center">Nombre</div>
</th>
<th scope="col" bgcolor="#00CCFF">
<div align="center">Libro</div>
</th>
<th scope="col" bgcolor="#00CCFF">
<div align="center">Capítulo</div>
</th>
<th scope="col" bgcolor="#00CCFF">
<div align="center">Folio</div>
</th>
<th scope="col" bgcolor="#00CCFF">
<div align="center">Columna</div>
</th>
<th scope="col" bgcolor="#00CCFF">
<div align="center">Línea</div>
</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<xsl:apply-templates select="//tei:name[#type = 'proper']"/>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="tei:name[#type = 'proper']">
<tr>
<td>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="ancestor::tei:div1/#n"/>
</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="ancestor::tei:div2/#n"/>
</td>
<td>
...
</td>
<td>
...
</td>
<td>
...
</td>
</tr>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="tei:name[#type = 'proper']/tei:ex">
<em>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</em>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
https://xsltfiddle.liberty-development.net/bFWR5Et

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<tr>
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<th>line</th>
<th>instruction</th>
<th>count</th>
<th>average time (gross/ms)</th>
<th>total time (gross/ms)</th>
<th>average time (net/ms)</th>
<th>total time (net/ms)</th>
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<td> "*code/unicode.xsl" </td>
<td>21</td>
<td>template Greek</td>
<td align="right">2,755,968</td>
<td align="right">0.017</td>
<td align="right">46,854.785</td>
<td align="right">0.017</td>
<td align="right">46,854.785</td>
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<tr>
<td> "*code/unicode.xsl" </td>
<td>32</td>
<td>template Hebrew</td>
<td align="right">1,329,696</td>
<td align="right">0.043</td>
<td align="right">57,529.163</td>
<td align="right">0.008</td>
<td align="right">10,674.378</td>
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<tr>
<td> "*code/unicode.xsl" </td>
<td>54</td>
<td>template IPA</td>
<td align="right">333,984</td>
<td align="right">0.206</td>
<td align="right">68,964.076</td>
<td align="right">0.019</td>
<td align="right">6,381.186</td>
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<tr>
<td> "*code/unicode.xsl" </td>
<td>43</td>
<td>template Cyrillic</td>
<td align="right">665,392</td>
<td align="right">0.094</td>
<td align="right">62,582.890</td>
<td align="right">0.008</td>
<td align="right">5,053.727</td>
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<td> "*code/unicode.xsl" </td>
<td>65</td>
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<td align="right">0.421</td>
<td align="right">70,284.800</td>
<td align="right">0.008</td>
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<td align="right">0.849</td>
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<td align="right">0.008</td>
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<td align="right">3.427</td>
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<td align="right">0.012</td>
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<td align="right">0.014</td>
<td align="right">98.490</td>
<td align="right">0.014</td>
<td align="right">98.490</td>
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<td>121</td>
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<td align="right">3.429</td>
<td align="right">71,600.976</td>
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<td align="right">0.135</td>
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Regular expressions such as \p{IsIPAExtensions} should be reasonably efficient: most of the blocks are a single consecutive range of codepoints and testing a character should simply check whether it is in that range. The cost, I suspect, arises not so much from the cost of checking one character against one Unicode block, but from the number of characters and the number of blocks.
It might be worth getting a profile at the Java level to see where it is spending its time. I can guess, but a profile would reveal if my guess is right.
The thing that can kill performance with regular expressions is backtracking, but I don't immediately see any risk of backtracking with this code.
The only other approach that comes to mind is to generate an enormous translate() call that classifies characters into groups (so all latin characters become "1", all Cyrillic characters become "2", etc) and then to process the result using `<xsl:for-each-group select="string-to-codepoints(.)" group-adjacent=".">. But there's no guarantee that would perform any better, and it's a lot of work to do the experiments to find out.

In XSLT 3, I would consider the following approach:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions"
xmlns:map="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions/map"
exclude-result-prefixes="#all"
version="3.0">
<xsl:param name="scripts"
as="map(xs:string, xs:string)*"
select="map { 'Cyrillic' : '\p{IsCyrillic}+'},
map { 'IPA' : '[\p{IsIPAExtensions}\p{IsPhoneticExtensions}]+' }"/>
<xsl:mode on-no-match="shallow-copy"/>
<xsl:template match="text()">
<xsl:iterate select="$scripts">
<xsl:param name="input" select="."/>
<xsl:on-completion>
<xsl:sequence select="$input"/>
</xsl:on-completion>
<xsl:next-iteration>
<xsl:with-param name="input">
<xsl:apply-templates select="$input" mode="wrap">
<xsl:with-param name="script-map" tunnel="yes" select="."/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:with-param>
</xsl:next-iteration>
</xsl:iterate>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:mode name="wrap" on-no-match="shallow-copy"/>
<xsl:template match="text()" mode="wrap">
<xsl:param name="script-map" tunnel="yes"/>
<xsl:analyze-string select="." regex="{$script-map?*}">
<xsl:matching-substring>
<xsl:element name="{map:keys($script-map)}">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:matching-substring>
<xsl:non-matching-substring>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:non-matching-substring>
</xsl:analyze-string>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
I haven't measured whether it performs better but for the regular expressions I would [\p{IsIPAExtensions}\p{IsPhoneticExtensions}]+ consider to be easier than (\p{IsIPAExtensions}|\p{IsPhoneticExtensions})+.
The other improvements are to rely on the xsl:mode based identity transformation and xsl:iterate.

xsl counting and xpath syntax

I have a table of projects created in SharePoint 2010. I am trying to create reporting for management and need to get counts of various fields. I have used xsl to get the values of fields when viewing single items, so I am fairly familiar with the language. However, I cannot find a good explanation of the syntax for counting multiple items.
I have a table like this:
<table>
<tr>
<th class="ms-vb2">
Project Title
</th>
<th class="ms-vb2">
Project Leader
</th>
<th class="ms-vb2">
Project Status
</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="ms-vb2">
Project Title 1
</td>
<td class="ms-vb2">
Project Leader 1
</td>
<td class="ms-vb2">
Completed
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="ms-vb2">
Project Title 2
</td>
<td class="ms-vb2">
Project Leader 1
</td>
<td class="ms-vb2">
Withdrawn
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="ms-vb2">
Project Title 3
</td>
<td class="ms-vb2">
Project Leader 2
</td>
<td class="ms-vb2">
Completed
</td>
</tr>
<!--About 100 more rows-->
</table>
There is a lot of nesting going on, so I am having difficulty targeting specific areas and I have very little control over the html due to this being generated by SharePoint.
Here is the reporting table I am trying to create using XSL:
<table id="FourBlockerHead" class="ClearBlockFloat">
<tr>
<th>Completed Count</th>
<th>Withdrawn Count</th>
<th>On Hold Count</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="count(../td[#ms-vb2='Completed'])" /><!--Should be 2-->
</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="count(../td[#ms-vb2='Withdrawn'])" /><!--Should be 1-->
</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="count(../td[#ms-vb2='On Hold'])" /><!--Should be 0-->
</td>
</tr>
</table>
I know there is a problem with my XPATH syntax, but I cannot figure it out.

A complete XSLT would look like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html" indent="yes" />
<xsl:template match="/table">
<html>
<body>
<table id="FourBlockerHead" class="ClearBlockFloat" border="1">
<tr>
<th>Completed Count</th>
<th>Withdrawn Count</th>
<th>On Hold Count</th>
</tr>
<xsl:for-each select="tr">
<tr>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="count(td[#class='ms-vb2' and normalize-space(text())='Completed'])" /><!--Should be 2-->
</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="count(td[#class='ms-vb2' and normalize-space(text())='Withdrawn'])" /><!--Should be 1-->
</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="count(td[#class='ms-vb2' and normalize-space(text())='On Hold'])" /><!--Should be 0-->
</td>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>
</table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
You can include this in your source XML file with
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="source.xslt"?>
in your XML file to get a well formatted HTML output.
The output would look like this:

Instead of:
<xsl:value-of select="count(../td[#ms-vb2='Completed')" />
try:
<xsl:value-of select="count(//td[#class='ms-vb2'][normalize-space()='Completed'])" />
and likewise for the other two.
Notes:
You did not provide the context, so I have changed the path to an absolute one, that counts all nodes in the entire document;
You don't have an attribute named ms-vb2;
You need to trim the whitespace in the data cell before comparing ot to a string with no whitespace.
The following stylesheet:
XSLT 1.0
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes" version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="table">
<table id="FourBlockerHead" class="ClearBlockFloat">
<tr>
<th>Completed Count</th>
<th>Withdrawn Count</th>
<th>On Hold Count</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="count(//td[#class='ms-vb2'][normalize-space()='Completed'])" />
</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="count(//td[#class='ms-vb2'][normalize-space()='Withdrawn'])" />
</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="count(//td[#class='ms-vb2'][normalize-space()='On Hold'])" />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
applied to your input example, will return:
<table id="FourBlockerHead" class="ClearBlockFloat">
<tr>
<th>Completed Count</th>
<th>Withdrawn Count</th>
<th>On Hold Count</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td>1</td>
<td>0</td>
</tr>
</table>

XSLT: my transform add an unselected element. What am I missing?

Ok, I'm working through some simple tutorials from here:
http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/legacy/teaching/7aavdh06/xslt/html/module_06.html
The first exercise involves creating a transformation that produces a certain output. Unfortunately, although I'm close, I get an unwanted element at the start. i.e.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="2.0">
<xsl:output method="xhtml"
doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd" />
<xsl:template match="/div/placeName">
<html>
<head />
<body>
<Table>
<tr>
<td>Place Name</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="name" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Place Name (regularised)</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="#reg" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>National Grid Reference</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="#key" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Type of building/monument</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="settlement/#type" />
</td>
</tr>
</Table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
but the output I'm getting is:
Location
Place Name Old Warden
Place Name (regularised) Old Warden, St Leonard
National Grid Reference TL 137 443
Type of building/monument Parish church
The rest is fine but the 'Location' is unwanted. The source XML is at the link above. Any idea how I stop the unwanted text appearing? Or, better still, tell me where I'm going wrong! :)
Edit: Here is the output
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
Location
<!DOCTYPE html SYSTEM "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<body>
<table>
<tr>
<td>Place Name</td>
<td>Old Warden</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Place Name (regularised)</td>
<td>Old Warden, St Leonard</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>National Grid Reference</td>
<td>TL 137 443</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Type of building/monument</td>
<td>Parish church</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

As Stivel mentions, the "Location" text does come from the head element in your XML.
<div type="location">
<head n="I">Location</head>
<placeName reg="Old Warden, St Leonard" key="TL 137 443">
The reason it is appearing is because of XSTL's built-in templates which it uses when you do not specify a match for an element it is looking for in your XSLT.
You can read up on built-in templates at the W3C page but in short, if XSLT can't find a match it will either continue processing the element's children (without copying the element), or in the case of text or attributes, output the value.
XSLT will start by looking for a match for the document element first, and if you have not provided a template, it will continue looking for a template for the root element, and then its children, and so on.
In your case, you have not provided a template to match anything until /div/placeName, this means XSLT will use the built-in template for the div element. This has two children; head and placeName. You have a template it can use for placeName, but not head and so the built-in template ends up outputing the text for head because you have not told it anything otherwise.
The solution is to simply to add a template to ignore the head element
<xsl:template match="/div/head" />
Here is the full XSLT
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="2.0">
<xsl:output method="xhtml"
doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd" indent="yes" />
<xsl:template match="/div/head" />
<xsl:template match="/div/placeName">
<html>
<head />
<body>
<Table>
<tr>
<td>Place Name</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="name" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Place Name (regularised)</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="#reg" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>National Grid Reference</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="#key" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Type of building/monument</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="settlement/#type" />
</td>
</tr>
</Table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
When you use this, this should give the output you need.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xhtml" doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"/>
<xsl:template match="div">
<xsl:apply-templates select="placeName"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="placeName">
<html>
<head />
<body>
<Table>
<tr>
<td>Place Name</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="name" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Place Name (regularised)</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="#reg" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>National Grid Reference</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="#key" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Type of building/monument</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="settlement/#type" />
</td>
</tr>
</Table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>

Probably your <head/> may refer
<head n="I">Location</head>
remove <head/> in xsl and check that.

How to transform an XML with default namespace?

I need some to help oon generating the XSL file for my XML Data.
Here is my XML Data
<?xml-stylesheet href="C:\Style.xsl" type="text/xsl" ?>
<xml>
<ApproverRoles OperationType="RemovedUser" xmlns="http://tempuri.org/">
<UserName>Bhupathiraju, Venkata</UserName><UserRole>IT Owner</UserRole><RoleDescription>Role Owner
</RoleDescription><UserRoleID>138</UserRoleID></ApproverRoles>
<ApproverRoles OperationType="RemovedUser" xmlns="http://tempuri.org/">
<UserName>Bhupathiraju, Venkata</UserName><UserRole>Business Owner</UserRole>
<RoleDescription>Role Owner</RoleDescription><UserRoleID>136</UserRoleID></ApproverRoles>
<ApproverRoles OperationType="RemovedUser" xmlns="http://tempuri.org/"><UserName>Amperayeni, Kiran K</UserName>
<UserRole>IT Owner</UserRole><RoleDescription>asdasdasd</RoleDescription><UserRoleID>97</UserRoleID>
</ApproverRoles>
<ApproverRoles OperationType="RemovedUser" xmlns="http://tempuri.org/"><UserName>Amperayeni, Kiran K</UserName>
<UserRole>IT Owner</UserRole><RoleDescription>i</RoleDescription><UserRoleID>135</UserRoleID></ApproverRoles>
</xml>
My XSL file is below
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match ="/" >
<html>
<head>
<title>User Management</title>
</head>
<body>
<table width="600" border="1" style='font-family:Calibri;font-size:10pt;background-color:#FFFFFF;border-color:#ccccff'>
<tr bgcolor = "#ccccff" style='font-weight:bold;'>
<td colspan="3">Proposed Users :</td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor = "#cccccc" style='font-weight:bold;'>
<td>User Name</td>
<td>Role</td>
<td>Role Qualifier</td>
</tr>
<xsl:for-each select="//ns1:ApproverRoles" >
<tr>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="UserName" />
</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="UserRole" />
</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="RoleDescription" />
</td>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>
<tr bgcolor = "#ccccff" style='font-weight:bold;'>
<td colspan="3">Removed Users :</td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor = "#cccccc" style='font-weight:bold;'>
<td>User Name</td>
<td>Role</td>
<td>Role Qualifier</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet >

You are not correctly dealing with the default namespace present in the input document. If you do not associate a prefix to the corresponding namespace uri, the XSLT processor will search for elements in no namespace. Actually, the elements in your input document, are all in the namespace http://tempuri.org/.
So, you need first to declare the namespace prefix in the transform:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:ns1="http://tempuri.org/">
Then, you have to use the prefix accordingly. For instance:
<xsl:for-each select="//ns1:ApproverRoles" >
<tr>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="ns1:UserName" />
</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="ns1:UserRole" />
</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="ns1:RoleDescription" />
</td>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>