XML : XSL Elements missing

Basically this is my XML with some historic data:

  <events>      <entry day="1" year="1901" month="1">          <event>Blablabla blablabla</event>          <event>Blablabla blablabla</event>          <event>Blablabla blablabla</event>          <event>Blablabla blablabla</event>      </entry>      <entry day="1" year="1902" month="1">          <event>Blablabla blablabla</event>          <event>Blablabla blablabla</event>          <event>Blablabla blablabla</event>          <event>Blablabla blablabla</event>      </entry>  </events>    

With the following XSL and some additional data coming via job ticket one corresponding entry should be selected:

  <xsl:template name="ereignisse">          <xsl:apply-templates select="$events/events/entry[              (number(@year) = $birthyear) and               (number(@month) = $birthmonth) and               (number(@day) = $birthday)]">          </xsl:apply-templates>   </xsl:template>    

So the output now is plain text. But it should look like:

  <event>Blablabla blablabla</event>  <event>Blablabla blablabla</event>  <event>Blablabla blablabla</event>  <event>Blablabla blablabla</event>    

I tried several ways but without success. Hope you can help me...