XSLT supplies a built-in template rule that's invoked when no explicit
template rule matches a node during apply-templates. The built-in rule
does as you've discovered: it processes the grandchildren. This is often
useful, but if you don't want this behavior, just change it:
<xsl:template match="*"/>
creates a fallback template rule that does nothing.
Michael Kay
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From: owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
[mailto:owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com] On Behalf Of
Borislav Stoyanov
Sent: 26 August 2003 13:32
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Subject: [xsl] How do you apply templates ONLY to the direct
children of an element/node?
Hallo all,
How do you apply templates ONLY to the direct children of an
element/node, supposed you dont know their name? What if
there is no matching template, why are grandchildren also matched?
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? Or is this a simple xsl question :)?
Best regards,
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