Re: [xsl] Understanding when to use apply-templates with no selector

[Karl Stubsjoen <kstubs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for clarifying!

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Brandon Ibach
<brandon.ibach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The <xsl:apply-templates/> instruction is equivalent to
> <xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>, so it will apply templates to
> all child nodes of the context node.
>
> Note that this does *not* include attributes, as they are not "child"
> nodes.  It does, however, include comments, processing instructions
> and text nodes, including whitespace separating elements, if it hasn't
> been stripped out by the processor.
>
> -Brandon :)
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Karl Stubsjoen <kstubs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I see this a lot:
>>
>> <xsl:apply-templates />
>>
>> I have even used it but to be honest, I'm not sure I undertand it
>> completely.  Given the following xml:
>>
>> <a>
>>  <b>
>>  <c>
>>  <d>
>> </a>
>>
>> If the current context is <a> and you call <xsl:apply-templates />,
>> the following template matches will hit:
>> match="a"
>> match="b"
>> match="*"  <!-- which picks up on a match of C and D -->
>>
>> What else gets matched?  If <a> looks like this <a att1="123"
>> att2="456">, we better have attribute matches too?  What about
>> comments and processing instructions?  So if you have.
>> <a>
>>  <!-- this is a comment --!>
>>  <?this is a processing instruction?>
>>  <b>
>> </a>
>>
>> Is there a best practice here to mention?
>>
>> Thanks, just thinking out loud on this.
>> Karl..
>>
>>
>>
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>> Karl Stubsjoen
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>
>



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