Re: [xsl] Novice Question - matching entire text children

Subject: Re: [xsl] Novice Question - matching entire text children
From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:35:10 +0000
On 20/12/2010 14:30, David Lee wrote:
<template match="NODE/string()" >

Which should obviously work right ?

No that is a syntax error string() is a function that returns a string and can not be used in a pattern like that.


99.99 times out of a 100, if you are writing

<template match="NODE/text()" >

you should be using

<template match="NODE" >

why do you want the template to fire on the element content rather than the element?

david



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