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Subject: Re: How do you apply templates ONLY to the direct children of an elem ent/node?
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 09:04:46 -0300
borislav stoyanov
At 2003-08-26 13:32 +0100, Borislav Stoyanov wrote:
How do you apply templates ONLY to the direct children of an element/node,
supposed you dont know their name? What if there is no matching template,
why are grandchildren also matched?
...
Or is this a simple xsl question :)?

This is a simple XSLT question: there are built-in template rules that are engaged when you do not provide a template rule for a node that is processed by your stylesheet:


http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xslt-19991116#built-in-rule

If you want to throw away everything that isn't caught by your template rules, then you have to override the built-in template rule for all elements by providing an empty template for all elements not explicitly matched in your stylesheet:

<xsl:template match="*"/><!--no template for all other elements-->

But then you'll have to be careful that you do, indeed, have a template rule for all of your elements and that you are not already unknowingly somewhere else in your stylesheet relying on the built-in template rule for elements.

I hope this helps.

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


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