Re: xalan-java xslt node value

Thanks very much for the explanation and reference.

Jason

----- Original Message -----
From: "Trevor Nash" <tcn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 11:33 AM
Subject: Re:  xalan-java xslt node value


> Read up on 'built-in templates'.
> There is a default behaviour in XSLT that essentially says 'unless you
> tell me differently, I will do the following:
>   for an element or root node, I will process each child
>  for a text node, I will copy the text to the output.'
> (Its actually slightly more complicated than that, but thats the
> important bit).
>
> So,
> ><xsl:template match="/">
> > <xsl:apply-templates/>
> ></xsl:template>
> is not necessary, the XSLT processor will do that by default
>
> >How can I prevent the sports-title value from being included in my
output?
> You also need
> <xsl:template match="sports-title" />
> (note the '/' which makes this an empty template)
> to tell the processor explicitly not to do anything with the
> sports-title elements.
>
> Another method is to match one of the higher level elements and do an
> apply-templates to process only the elements you actually want, rather
> than leave the processor to look at all of them.
>
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