<xsl:template match="el1">
  <xsl:apply-templates match="*[not(local-name() = 'CHILD4'] />
</xsl:template>
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Charles Knell
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-----Original Message-----
From:     rfd ewrew <xmlquestions101@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent:     Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:38:15 -0500
To:       xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:   How to apply templates to all child elements except a few

Hi:

I was wondering if there was any way in xslt to APPLY TEMPLATES a few
elements and exclude a few

Suppose i have an xml with a root element as el1
<el1>
<CHILD1></CHILD1>
<CHILD2></CHILD2>
<CHILD3></CHILD3>
<CHILD4></CHILD4>

</el1>
I want to write something like apply templates to all elements except
CHILD4. How do I do this?

I would suggest, Charles, that using the self::
axis is "safer" because while it accommodates the
elements as given it also accommodates the
situation where readers of the archive happen to
be working with elements in a namespace this
usage pattern would be more appropriate:

<xsl:template match="el1">
  <xsl:apply-templates match="*[not(self::CHILD4)]"/>
</xsl:template>

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