Differences between oraxsl output and XMLLoder transformation

Following the ch14 deptempdepend example in Steves book, the data loads ok. However if I use oraxsl to transform the data into the canoconial rowset format using
java oracle.xml.parser.v2.oraxsl deptempdepend.xml deptempdepend.xsl out.xml
I get the result
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <INSERT>
<ROWSET table="dept" />
<ROWSET table="budget_plan_assignment" />
<ROWSET table="emp" />
<ROWSET table="dependent" />
</INSERT>
This seems to contain the correct tags, but not the data to be inserted, can anyone explain this?

Following the ch14 deptempdepend example in Steves book, the data loads ok. However if I use oraxsl to transform the data into the canoconial rowset format using
java oracle.xml.parser.v2.oraxsl deptempdepend.xml deptempdepend.xsl out.xml
I get the result
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <INSERT>
<ROWSET table="dept" />
<ROWSET table="budget_plan_assignment" />
<ROWSET table="emp" />
<ROWSET table="dependent" />
</INSERT>
This seems to contain the correct tags, but not the data to be inserted, can anyone explain this?

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