Having just been bitten by overlooking a namespace, this couldn't be more timely.
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Charles Knell
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-----Original Message-----
From:     G. Ken Holman <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent:     Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:59:18 -0400
To:       xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  RE:  How to apply templates to all child elements except a few

At 2006-10-17 14:45 -0400, cknell@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
><xsl:template match="el1">
>   <xsl:apply-templates match="*[not(local-name() = 'CHILD4'] />
></xsl:template>
>--
>Charles Knell
>cknell@xxxxxxxxxx - email
>-----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>

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . . . . Ken


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