Re: [xsl] Not parsing sub-nodes

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

<xsl:template match="/*">
despite the * in th ematch avove this can only match on one element
as there can only be one element that is the child of the root node.

    <xsl:value-of select="."/>

This gives the string value of the document element, that is the
concatenation of _all_ characters that appear as elemet content
_anywhere_ in the document.

    <xsl:for-each select="company">
This selects all the company children of the top level company element.

     <xsl:apply-templates select="company"/>
For each of those children, this selcts its company children (ie
grandchildren of the top element)  in your example document there are none.
    </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>



<xsl:template match="office">
This template will never be called as your company tempate never applies
templates to anything other than company nodes.

    <xsl:value-of select="."/>
This returns the character data of the element but this is the empty
string as th eelemnt is empty.

    <xsl:apply-templates select="office"/>

This selects all office children of the office node, but office nodes
are empty so this does nothing.
</xsl:template>


David

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