Re: [xsl] Copy-per-default

[Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx>]

Fredrik Bengtsson wrote:

> <xsl:template match="/d:book">
>    <!-- ignoring root, page-sequence etc for brevity -->
>    <xsl:apply-templates />
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="d:chapter">
>    <xsl:apply-templates />
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="d:chapter/d:title">
>    <fo:block>  ... ...</fo:block>
> </xsl:template>
>
>
> Then for some reason the titleabbrev appears in the output even though I have not made any rule explicitly matching it. It is caught along with the title inside the apply-templates under d:chapter. I thought that this would not happen, unless I really added a matching template of some sort, for example an identity transform.

Well in your template for chapter you do apply-templates meaning you 
process all child nodes. Then there is a built-in template that does the 
same for any element nodes not having a template in your stylesheet and 
there is a built-in template for text nodes that does xsl:value-of, thus 
the contents of the titleabbrev is copied to the output.

You can remedy this by either only selecting the title element with your 
apply-templates in the chapter template

<xsl:template match="d:chapter">
  <xsl:apply-templates select="d:title"/>
</xsl:template>

or by suppressing text output with

  <xsl:template match="text()"/>


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