RE: [xsl] XSLT Processing Model Questions

Subject: RE: [xsl] XSLT Processing Model Questions
From: "Dietrich Ayala" <dietrich@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 08:57:32 -0700
thanks. i'd read section 5 over and over, and still had profound misunderstanding of how this process worked. i think i've got a
handle on it now.

thanks,

dietrich

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of David
> Carlisle
> Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 12:44 AM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [xsl] XSLT Processing Model Questions
>
>
>
> > First: I'm viewing the source-tree serialization given in section
> > D.1. This is what is leading me to believe this.
>
> The template
>
> <xsl:template match="doc/title">
>   <h1>
>     <xsl:apply-templates/>
>   </h1>
> </xsl:template>
>
> Matches the title element:
>
> <title>Document Title</title>
>
> and produces a <h1> element in the output, the apply-templates there
> matches the children of the title element, which is the text node
> Document Title
> and produces an identical text node as the child of h1.
>
> Why do you think that the apply-templates is generating siblings of h1?
>
> The next sibling is the <h2>chapter title</h2>
> which comes about as the
> apply-templates
> in the template for doc  causes templates to be applied to the <chapter?
> element after the title element. There is no template supplied for
> chapter so the default template will be used, which applies templates to
> the children of that element, so then th etemplate matching
>
>
> <xsl:template match="chapter/title">
>   <h2>
>     <xsl:apply-templates/>
>   </h2>
> </xsl:template>
>
> fires and produces the h2.
>
> David
>
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