Re: [xsl] Convert XML to Excel using XSLT Question II.

["Karen Yang" <kyang94@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you very much, Wendell. That explains a lot. Let me just confirm
your example to make sure that I understand correctly. Can you or
someone else please to confirm my following understanding?

In your following example:

> <xsl:template match="foo">
>   <br/>
> </xsl:template>

A <br> will show up every time there is a "foo" tag, but the
decendants of "foo" won't be traversed. Is this correct? Then
according to your following rule #3, when you have a template that
matches a node (say node A), no matter whether there is
apply-template, this node A would be traversed or applied this
template anyway, but not its decendant, right?

Sorry that my questions may be too naive, but all your replies did
help me a lot, I feel I'm closer and closer to the goal..... :-)

> 1. Applying templates does *not* happen just because a template is present
> 2. Nevertheless, since the built-in default templates (for elements
> and the root) contain apply-templates instructions, the tree will be
> traversed completely by default in any case.
> 3. Yet, this default behavior is easy to override, at any level of
> the tree, simply by writing a template that does not contain an
> apply-templates instruction. This is an important, and very useful,
> feature of the language.

> Having the instruction be explicit also allows us to:
>
> 1. Do it more than once
> 2. Apply templates to any nodes we like (not just the children)
For your point #2, if I'd like to apply this template to its children
and other nodes, how do I do this? I guess I need to give it a name
and let other nodes call this template, right? Then use apply-template
to its children, right? If I'm right, then can <xsl:template name =
"foo" match = "foo1"> be right?

Thanks a million!

Karen.