Re: Apply-templates for getting around my XML doc?

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

You could do that but it's a rather strange style of working.
All your match expressions only match one element so it's rather strange
to code it as a match.

basically the answer to your question

      <xsl:apply-templates select="/L/0/iii"/>   <!-- does this pass the
                           ball directly to the template listed  below?--> 

is no.

That selects th enode you are interested in and then applies whatever
template that matches. Now it so happens that the one that matches
is the one you indicated, but that is a rather indirect approach.
If you really only want to do something for one iii node (not all nodes
of that name) I'd probably do

<xsl:for-each select="/L/X0/iii">
 do this  this
</xsl:for-each>


Also rather importantly you can not have element names beginning with a
digit? which XML parser are you using? It should have rejected the whole thing.

David


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