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RE: [xsl] Do Templates Conflict?

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To add to previous answers, it's technically an error to have two template
rules with the same priority that match the same node, but implementations
are allowed to ignore the error and simply choose the one that comes last.
Many implementations do just that. Saxon allows you to choose between silent
recovery as above, issuing a warning followed by silent recovery (the
default), and issuing a hard error.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edward Bryant [mailto:bryant_edward@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 04 May 2005 21:03
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] Do Templates Conflict? 
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> I was wondering if someone can explain why two templates that 
> both apply to 
> a source xml element do not conflict.
> 
> I have one template that applies to all the paragraphs in a 
> document and 
> another that applies only to the first paragraph. I did this 
> assuming it 
> would somehow not work because of the conflict between the templates. 
> However, to my surprise it worked fine. Now, I am even more 
> worried because 
> I don't know why it worked. Can someone explain what is going on?
> 
> Does the order the templates are listed in matter?
> 
> Does it matter that one selected a more specific context?

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