Re: I don't understand... text is always output?

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 99/09/26 13:35 -0700, Terris wrote:
> An empty stylesheet returns the text of all elements:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/XSL/Transform/1.0";>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> This also happens when the stylesheet is not empty.. for example, when
> it contains templates.
>
> This is not intuitive to me.  What was the thinking behind this?

There are built-in templates described in XSLT-19990813 in section 5.8, in 
particular:

There is also a built-in template rule for text and attribute nodes that 
copies text through:

<xsl:template match="text()|@*">
  <xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>

> I only want text in particular elements to be output.

Then you will have to override the built-in template.

> Are there other things that get output by default?

I'll ask you to see all the details of 5.8 rather than copy them here.

> Is there a way to filter out text besides adding the following
> template?
>
> <xsl:template match="text()"/>

That is how I would do it.  I suppose another way is to avoid the 
processing of text nodes in the source tree, but that would be harder to 
maintain than just overriding the built-in template.

I hope this helps.

................ Ken

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