Mike,
At 06:06 PM 9/8/2005, David wrote:
<h1>
<!-- THIS IS WHAT I NEEDED -->
<xsl:apply-templates
select="Name/node()"/>
</h1>
That works but makes things look a lot more complicated than need be.
You probably just want to replace all that by
<xsl:apply-templates select="Name"/>
and have
<xsl:template match="Guide/Name">
<h1><xsl:apply-templates/></h1>
</xsl:template>
That's probably a more natural xslt coding style.
... and it would implicitly override your identity template (the one
matching "@*|node()", which would get rid of that problem -- so your
stylesheet would "just work" had you had this template.
OTOH, you couldn't have known this. Another vital detail in the XSLT
processing model: how the processor decides among templates when more than
one template (oops: "template rule"; see below) matches a given node. In
this case, a template that matches "node()" (any node) and one that matches
"Guide/Name" (a name element child of a Guide element) both would match
your Name. The processor sees this and chooses the latter as a "better
match". (The reason: the rules for template matching assign it a priority
of 1, while the template matching "node()" has a priority of -0.5....)
BTW, a "template rule" is that construct we generally call a "template". No
one knows this or bothers to observe it, but "templates" are the *content*
of template rules ... templates also appear inside xsl:for-each instructions.
I'm a secularist too, but I'm willing to be just as persnickety as any
religionist if it helps get the job done. Not persnickety for its own sake,
mind you. :-)
Cheers,
Wendell
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