Re: unsuspected output

  This XSL should not produce any output except the Heading because the
  template which is applied by the apply-templates element is not present
  (not included jet). But it produces output,


Try a stylesheet which just has an empty xsl:stylesheet element and no
templates on any xml file. It does not produce no output, it copies all
teh character data from the source.

There is always a template for every node, if one isn't supplied a
default one is used, the default for elements is to produce no element
node but to recursively apply templates to child nodes, and the default
for text nodes is to copy the text, so the end result is all teh text
data being copied through, with no elements.

Add <xsl:template match="*"/> if you want the default behaviour on
element nodes to be to do nothing.


David

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