Asign paragraph styles to xml nodes

Hello all,
I try to asign paragraph styles to xml nodes. I tried to autoasign the styles to tags and also to assign the styles directly to the xml tags with aid:pstyle. None of it with success. I think that this happens because there is a paragraph formating missing in my xml. I tried to change this with <aid:br/> but also no success.
This is how my xsl looks like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="2.0">
<xsl:output method = "xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:template match="ooo_sheet">
    <Root>
      <xsl:for-each select="ooo_row">
          <Artikel>
          <xsl:copy-of select="Artikelnummer"/>
              <Bild>
                    <xsl:attribute name="href">
                  <xsl:text>file:///</xsl:text>
                  <xsl:value-of select="Bildpfad"/>
                    </xsl:attribute>
              </Bild>
              <Text xmlns:aid="http://ns.adobe.com/AdobeInDesign/4.0/" xmlns:aid5="http://ns.adobe.com/AdobeInDesign/5.0/">
                    <EK aid5:pstyle="EK"><xsl:value-of select="EK"/><aid:br/></EK>
                <Details aid5:pstyle="Details"><xsl:value-of select="Details"/><aid:br/></Details>
                <Abmessungen aid5:pstyle="Abmessungen"><xsl:value-of select="Abmessungen"/><aid:br/></Abmessungen>
                <Artikelnummer aid5:pstyle="Artikelnummer"><xsl:value-of select="Artikelnummer"/><aid:br/></Artikelnummer>
              </Text>
          </Artikel>
      </xsl:for-each>
    </Root>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
I want to achieve that I can pull the the following tag from the structure view in Indesign to a textframe and the text gets the different formating.
<Text xmlns:aid="http://ns.adobe.com/AdobeInDesign/4.0/" xmlns:aid5="http://ns.adobe.com/AdobeInDesign/5.0/">
                    <EK aid5:pstyle="EK"><xsl:value-of select="EK"/><aid:br/></EK>
                <Details aid5:pstyle="Details"><xsl:value-of select="Details"/><aid:br/></Details>
                <Abmessungen aid5:pstyle="Abmessungen"><xsl:value-of select="Abmessungen"/><aid:br/></Abmessungen>
                <Artikelnummer aid5:pstyle="Artikelnummer"><xsl:value-of select="Artikelnummer"/><aid:br/></Artikelnummer>
</Text>
Could anyone point me to the right direction? Any help is very welcome. Thank you for your help.

Sorry, my last example was the xsl instead of the xml. Here is the xml I got. I want to pull the Root/Artikel/Text Tag to a frame and all Child tags within should be formated with the corresponding pstyles.
But it looks like as if Indesign just does not tranform the aid5 style upon xml/xlst import. The <aid:br> tags you see are just a try of myself to get the tags within the Text tag separated as paragraph.
But Indesign just interprets them as normal tags and also shows them in the structure pane.
Thank you very much for your help. I also tried to format the text with the paragraph styles by hand and export the whole thing as xml from Indesign. But Indesign just the xml the same way I imported it. The same happens when I manually create a xml structure in Indesign, assign the styles to the text within the frame. Indesign just exports the raw xml structure. But no style declarations. So I can't see how to format the tags the right way.
This is how my xml looks like when I import it with the upper xsl.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<Root>
    <Artikel>
        <Artikelnummer>C12-34567</Artikelnummer>
        <Bild href="file:///Users/Diamondgroup/Desktop/KatalogBeispiel/cmyk/C12-34567.PSD"></Bild>
        <Text xmlns:aid="http://ns.adobe.com/AdobeInDesign/4.0/" xmlns:aid5="http://ns.adobe.com/AdobeInDesign/5.0/">
            <EK aid5:pstyle="EK">1234,-<aid:br></aid:br></EK>
            <Details aid5:pstyle="Details">AAA AAA AAA AAA<aid:br></aid:br></Details>
            <Abmessungen aid5:pstyle="Abmessungen"><aid:br></aid:br></Abmessungen>
            <Artikelnummer aid5:pstyle="Artikelnummer">C12-34567<aid:br></aid:br></Artikelnummer>
        </Text>
    </Artikel>
    <Artikel>
        <Artikelnummer>C23-45678</Artikelnummer>
        <Bild href="file:///Users/Diamondgroup/Desktop/KatalogBeispiel/cmyk/C23-45678.PSD"></Bild>
        <Text xmlns:aid="http://ns.adobe.com/AdobeInDesign/4.0/" xmlns:aid5="http://ns.adobe.com/AdobeInDesign/5.0/">
            <EK aid5:pstyle="EK">2345,-<aid:br></aid:br></EK>
            <Details aid5:pstyle="Details">BBB BBB BBB BBB<aid:br></aid:br></Details>
            <Abmessungen aid5:pstyle="Abmessungen"><aid:br></aid:br></Abmessungen>
            <Artikelnummer aid5:pstyle="Artikelnummer">C23-45678<aid:br></aid:br></Artikelnummer>
        </Text>
     </Artikel>
</Root>
All the xsl: transformations work but the aid: and aid5: transformations just show in the xml as they where in the xsl.

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3. Pages 5.5.1 lets you apply formatting to overall text for the T.O.C. but not parts of it and you can not retain that formatting as a Paragraph style
So in answer to your question, no.
You will need to create the T.O.C. manually and unfortunately as Pages 5.5.1 can't create bookmarks (just one of over 100 missing features) you will be unable to link the T.O.C. to the referred pages in the list.
Peter
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