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Subject: RE: [xsl] How do you apply templates ONLY to the direct children of an element/node? From: Borislav Stoyanov <BStoyanov@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 14:38:20 +0100 |
> > How do you apply templates ONLY to the direct children of an > > element/node, > > supposed you dont know their name? > > <xsl:apply-templates select="*"/> > > which is an abbreviation of > > <xsl:apply-templates select="child::*"/> > > > What if there is no > > matching template, > > why are grandchildren also matched? > > Because the build-in default template is used, which in this case is > > <xsl:template match="* | /"> > <xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/> > </xsl:template> > Actually I know this but it is NOT ONLY for the DIRECT children but also for their grandchildren and so on IF there is no specified matching template for <unknown-element>. My idea is that if the xsl-transformer finds an element for which it is not defined a template it just skips it and don't go into this element's children? > Let > > <element-1> > > <unknown-element> > > .... > > </unknown-element> > > <element-1> > > be the xml file to be transformed. > > > > Now you got the following transforming rule: > > <xsl:template match="element-1"> > > <xsl:apply-templates select="*"/> > > </xsl:template> > > > > What I expect is that if an xsl <unknown-element> template rule is not > > available nothing should happen. However I get apply-templates on the > > elements contained in <unknown-element>...</unknown-element>. Why does it > > happen and how can I achieve to apply the templates ONLY to the direct > > children and avoid the implied apply-template rules to the grandchildren > > and so on? > > Override the default rule with e.g. > > <xsl:template match="*"/> Thats not that simple if you have 200 other templates/cases somewhere else. Best regards, XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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