diff --git a/src/swmath2swh/staging_deposit_v2.py b/src/swmath2swh/staging_deposit_v2.py
index 3c8b1ee3..0bccdbe5 100644
--- a/src/swmath2swh/staging_deposit_v2.py
+++ b/src/swmath2swh/staging_deposit_v2.py
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
-from swmath2swh.restApi_software_Json import process_metadata
-from swmath2swh.convertSoftware_from_json_toXml import convert_json_to_xml
+
 import defusedxml.ElementTree as DET  # Using defusedxml for safe XML parsing
 from defusedxml.lxml import fromstring
 import lxml.etree as ET
-import pandas as pd
 import subprocess
 import time
 import tempfile
@@ -15,7 +13,7 @@
 env['SWMATH_USER_DEPOSIT'] = os.getenv('SWMATH_USER_DEPOSIT')
 env['SWMATH_PWD_DEPOSIT'] = os.getenv('SWMATH_PWD_DEPOSIT')
 
-xsl_filename = '../xslt/software/xslt_SWH_deposit.xslt'
+xsl_filename = '../../xslt/software/xslt_SWH_deposit.xslt'
 
 # Fetch XML data
 r = requests.get("https://oai.portal.mardi4nfdi.de/oai/OAIHandler?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=codemeta&identifier=oai:swmath.org:4532")
@@ -34,8 +32,11 @@
 transform = ET.XSLT(xslt)
 newdom = transform(lxml_dom)
 formatted_newdom = ET.tostring(newdom, pretty_print=True, encoding='unicode')
+formatted_newdom = re.sub(r'xmlns:xsi="[^"]+"', '', formatted_newdom)
 formatted_newdom = re.sub(r'xmlns:ns\d+="[^"]+"', '', formatted_newdom)
 formatted_newdom = re.sub(r'ns\d+:', 'codemeta:', formatted_newdom)
+formatted_newdom = re.sub(r'<\s*([^>]+?)\s*>', r'<\1>', formatted_newdom)
+formatted_newdom = re.sub(r'<\s*/\s*([^>]+?)\s*>', r'</\1>', formatted_newdom)
 print(formatted_newdom)
 
 # Write transformed XML to a temporary file