>  Could you explain what exactly the following line does?

<xsl:template match="seg[*]"/>

matches any seg element that has a child element, and produces nothing
(as the template is empty)


In otherwords it implements this part of my english description

> If I understand your requirement it is to ignore any seg elements with
> element content,

David

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