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Re: [xsl] [xslt] not working transformation when function called

2009-03-19 17:27:00
Michalmas wrote:
But why this trigger:

<xsl:template match="move/from">
  <datatype><xsl:value-of select="local:getNodeType(/,
./dataname)"/></datatype> <!--DATATYPE -->
</xsl:template>

doesn't work?

You should probably review some basic texts, just as Jeni Tennison’s,
Michael Kay’s, or Ken Holman’s; there seems to be some confusion about
the basic XSLT processing model.

To elaborate on what David Carlisle said:

You have a template that matches /, the document node.  It says to apply
templates (to its children).

The first child encountered is move.  There is no template that
explicitly matches move; instead, the template matching * is used.  That
template says to copy the element.  Thus, the entire move element is copied.

And... that’s it.  There are no more children of /, so nothing else is done.

You probably want, as I suggested, to nuke the * template and allow the
default template to apply, or else use the identity transformation
(which is available in a thousand places with a quick Web search) as
your starting point.

~Chris
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