Here are some things which i am little confused about.
1.
I have read this at
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-Applying-Template-Rules
*In the absence of a select attribute, the xsl:apply-templates
instruction processes all of the children of the current node,
including text nodes.*
Does that mean if we use <xsl:apply-templates select="*"/>
instead of <xsl:apply-templates/> both are same except the one
will process all child nodes and the other will process all but
text child nodes.
2.
And one thing about overriding template rules.
<xsl:template match="node"/>
Does that mean it will do nothing to node and process the child
nodes of node or It means it will not process any node which are
inside <node> and </node> like
<node>
<node1>......</node1>
<node2>......</node2>
</node>
3.
If we have
<xsl:template match
="text()[preceding-sibling::node()[1][self::input][not(normalize-space())]]
then we read it from left to right so if this has to be read it
reads
Template matches text() node then check the first perceding
sibling of that node whether it is input or not and white spaces
in text node should be preserved. right?
4.
Some times we use "." dot and sometimes "*" astric
Are they not same used for all elements or they are different as
in select we use "*" and in count we use
"." like count(.| some key).
ashu
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