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,
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