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G. Ken Holman wrote: > At 2003-01-23 09:42 -0500, cknell@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >I have included an XML data document, an XSLT stylesheet, and the > >resulting output. The XML and XSLT have been severly edited for brevity. > >The problem I have been working for several hours is the > >extraneous? "Bugs Bunny" text node output at the end of the output > >document. I don't know what template or rule is causing its creation, > > Your <xsl:apply-templates> in your root node template rule is > selecting all child nodes because you do not have a select= attribute. > The <item> is one of the child nodes. Without a template rule for > <item>, the built-in template rules engage and all children are > processed, which includes text nodes. Without a template rule for text > nodes, the built-in template rule is adding the text node to the result. > > >I suspect I need some sort of rule with no output, but I haven't > >been able to discover what the rule should match. > > <xsl:template match="menu/item" mode="sub-menu" priority="-1"/> > > This will not conflict with match="item[item]" because the inferred > priority of that rule is ".5". Is there a reason not just use 'match="item[not(item)]"' instead? This seems to me to express the desired behavior more precisely, and it does not require the priority setting to work correctly in the general case. XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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