RE: [xsl] Exclude elements from apply-templates?

["Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> The title and subtitle are handled by the chapter template, 
> so I when I say apply-templates later, I don't want these to 
> appear again the output. This seemed logical to me:
> 
> <xsl:apply-templates select="not(title | subtitle)"/>
> 
> But Saxon says: "Sequence selected by xsl:apply-templates 
> contains an item that is not a node."
> 

Guessing the language by trial and error works surprisingly often, but
occasionally it's useful to read the spec. The not() function returns a
boolean, not a node-set.

In XSLT 2.0 (which you're using, judging by the error message) you can
do 
   select="* except (title|subtitle)"

In 1.0 you need something like
   select="*[not(self::title)][not(self::subtitle)]"

Alternatively create template rules for these two elements that output
nothing:

<xsl:template select="title|subtitle"/>

Michael Kay
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