Re: Re: Newbie question--applying templates, selecting

Joerg and Dave,

Thanks for the url--that helped.

Dave, I also appreciate your explanation about xsl-copy.  To answer your
question--I didn't use "node() | @*" because I didn't know better :)  I
borrowed the code I used ("*|@*|text()|comment()" from an old post.  I'm
still a newbie, so thanks for providing a more concise solution. 

Kathryn

Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 20:31:43 +0200
From: Joerg Heinicke <joerg.heinicke@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re:  Re: Newbie question--applying templates, selecting
paragraphs - SOLVED!!

What about http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#conflict ? Does it help?

Joerg

Grant-Kathryn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> May I ask one more question that will hopefully help me understand more
> about XSL?  I understand now why the xhtml namespace is necessary.  But I
> don't understand why adding the second template worked.  If the first one
> says "copy everything," the second one must somehow override or modify the
> first.  But syntactically, I don't see how that is accomplished.

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Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 11:42:30 -0700
From: "David N Bertoni/Cambridge/IBM" <david_n_bertoni@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re:  Re: Newbie question--applying templates, selecting
paragraphs - S OLVED!!

xsl:copy does not make a deep copy, it only copies the current node.  The
xsl:apply-templates element with the xsl:copy recursively processes any
descendants.  The second template is more specific, and therefore, has a
higher default priority, so it is chosen rather than the first one, if it
matches the current node.  For more info, see:

   http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#conflict

Is there some reason you're not just using the expression "node() | @*",
instead of "*|@*|text()|comment()"?  Are you excluding processing
instructions on purpose?

Dave

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