Subject: RE: [xsl] how to <xsl:apply-templates /> for ELEMENT nodes only? From: "Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 08:56:00 +0100 |
You can apply templates to elements only by writing <xsl:apply-templates select="*"/>. But I don't see what's inelegant about overriding the default template rule for text nodes. Michael Kay > -----Original Message----- > From: Terence Kearns [mailto:terencek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 30 March 2004 07:04 > To: XSL-List > Subject: [xsl] how to <xsl:apply-templates /> for ELEMENT nodes only? > > At the moment, I have > > <!-- lots of imported templates in this XSL file --> > <xsl:template match="/"> > <html> > <head> > <title>UC Policy Database</title> > <link rel="StyleSheet" type="text/css" > href="policydb_content.css"/> > </head> > <body leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" > marginheight="0"> > <xsl:call-template name="header"/> > <xsl:apply-templates select="//menu" mode="menu"/>  > > <xsl:apply-templates /> > <xsl:call-template name="footer"/> > </body> > </html> > </xsl:template> > > But in order to stop the text node from being spewed out by > default, I > have to explicityly surpress it with > <xsl:template match="//text()" /> > > While this works, surely there is a more elegant way. The source XML > uses an informal schema designed by someone else which mixes > text with > elements (document centric schema). I'm halfway through overhauling > their XSLT templates and I just want all templates matching > any type of > element to be applied. > > > > -- > Terence Kearns > ph: +61 2 6201 5516 > Enterprise Applications Developer > Enterprise Systems Support and Development > Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Services > University of Canberra, Australia - http://www.canberra.edu.au
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