RE: how can I get the subelement

> <?xml version="1.0" ?>
> <xsl:stylesheet 
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0" >
> 
> <xsl:template match="//author/*" >
>     <xsl:value-of select="name()" /> 
> </xsl:template>
 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>

This template rule never fires, because the source document doesn't contain
any elements that are children of an <author> element. So the whole document
is being processed using the built-in template rules, which do a recursve
descent of the document, outputting only the text nodes.

(It feels odd to sit here reading the titles of a random pile of books that
were cluttering my desk around a year ago when I wrote this example. I guess
I asked for it.)

Mike Kay


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