what did i do wrong
Your posted file does not demonstrate the problem you are having, so
it's hard to guess.
as posted it produces the following:
$ saxon simple.xml simple.xsl
Error on line 11 column 3 of file:/c:/tmp/simple.xml:
Error reported by XML parser: unexpected characters in element end tag
(expected "b")
Transformation failed: Run-time errors were reported
If you delete the spurious <b> on line 11 then you get the output that I
think you expected, and not the output that you said that you got:
$ saxon simple.xml simple.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>test1
::
test2
;;
test3
::
test4
;;
:|*|:
David
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