RE: Why aren't rules matched with "*"?

[Charles Cantrell <chc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

You are probably right about the //. However, what I am trying to match are
actually children of the "Para" element. In other words, Menu, Prompt, etc.
are elements inside of Para. So, I thought they should be matched by the
"*". 

Someone else suggested the exhibited behavior I am getting might be a bug in
MSXML3, which I am using. 


-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Hankin [mailto:steve.hankin@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 11:04 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Why aren't rules matched with "*"?


Apologies if I get this wrong since I am _v_ new to this, but perhaps you
need
this...

    <xsl:apply-templates select="//*"/>

...or even...

    <xsl:apply-templates select="//"/>

I think the * will give you everything on your current level, whereas the //
will travel down the path to pick everything up.

Regards,
Steve


Charles Cantrell wrote:

> I have the following rule in my xsl stylesheet.
>
> <xsl:template match="Para">
>   <p">
>     <xsl:apply-templates
> select="Menu|Table|WindowID|Illustration|Prompt|ErrMsg|text()"/>
>   </p>
> </xsl:template>
>
> and it successfully matches and applies rules for each of the templates
> specified in the "select" expression. For example, the following rule for
> "Menu" is matched:
>
> <xsl:template match="Menu">
>   <xsl:if test="contains(.,'1,1,4,1')">
>     THIS IS <i>REALLY</i> MENU 1,4,1,1
>   </xsl:if>
>   <strong style="font-family: arial; color:green"><xsl:value-of
> select="text()"/></strong>
> </xsl:template>
>
> However, if I change the rule to:
>
> <xsl:template match="Para">
>   <p>
>     <xsl:apply-templates select="*"/>
>   </p>
> </xsl:template>
>
> then no templates are matched.
>
> Why aren't the Menu, Table and so on rules matched, as well as others? I
> thought that the "*" was a universal selector, and so should get
everything.
> What is it that I don't understand here. Thanks.
>
> Charles Cantrell
> Information Engineer
> Ontario Systems Corporation
> 1150 West Kilgore Avenue
> Muncie, IN 47305
>
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>
>
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