RE: import/include and apply-imports

The code I used to play with:
xml:
<a><book>bbb</book></a>

first.xsl
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:import href="third.xsl"/>
<xsl:include href="second.xsl"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>

second.xsl
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="book">
<b><xsl:apply-imports/></b>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

third.xsl
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="book">
<xsl:apply-templates/>AM I EVER EVER MATCHED?
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Ronald Heller
At 10:16 AM 5/10/01 +1000, you wrote:

Janning

As I understand it, there can be only one <template match="book"> in an xsl.

If first.xsl has a <template match="book"> that will be used over the ones
from  the included xsl's, and otherwise if there are more than one then the
last one is used (in Saxon - depends on the XSL Parser I think)

As second.xsl is imported after third.xsl, only the template match in
second.xsl is used.

Otherwise, what would the processor do?  Which should it use? It wouldn't
make sense to have more than one template matching the same node.

I'm pretty sure I read about this in Michael Kays XSLT book, but he may
clarify your question.

Tim :)
-----Original Message-----
From: Janning Vygen
Sent: Thursday, 10 May 2001 3:19 AM
Subject:  import/include and apply-imports

first.xsl:
------
<xsl:import href="third.xsl">
<xsl:include href="second.xsl">

second.xsl
--------
<template match="book">
  <xsl:apply-imports/>
</template>

third.xsl
------
<template match="book">
  AM I EVER EVER MATCHED?
</template>

the template in the third.xsl is NEVER matched!!
Why? I thought, that include means, the stylesheet is included like it was
always in this file??

Janning


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