RE: [xsl] super basic xsl question

["Pawson, David" <David.Pawson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Jeb Boniakowski


    Thanks for the reply.  This is the kind of info I'm having
    a hard time getting from like w3schools.com, etc.

Try one of the books, it might be more reliable.



    In general though, on the topic of apply-templates, there
    is a larger issue that trips me up.  Oftentimes, it seems
    that I mess up my set of templates in such a way that
    things get matched and copied to the output tree
    automatically, even though they are matched.  To deal with
    this, I've been sticking a template at the top of my sheets that is:

    <xsl:template match="text()"/>

    Is this bad style?  Is it a crappy hack to deal with messed
    up templates?  Or is it the correct way to suppress default rules?

Don't suppress them, find out what they do, and use them or replace them?
Their basic operation is to copy the input document text to the output,
then process the child of the element you forgot to provide a template for.
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#built-in-rule

I trip over the same way, so all my new stylesheets have

  <xsl:template match="*">
  <xsl:message>
    *****<xsl:value-of select="name(..)"/>/{<xsl:value-of
select="namespace-uri()"/>}<xsl:value-of select="name()"/>******
    </xsl:message>
</xsl:template>

This prompts me to write a template for the A/B element that I'm not yet
processing.
When I've finished, I can write

<xsl:template match="*"/>

which again replaces or overrides the defaults, and blocks processing (if
that's what is needed)





HTH DaveP.

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