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You can add <xsl:template match="description"/> cause your description is allready been processed in the first template and you don't want to process it twice. On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:10:00 -0500, Jeb Boniakowski <jeb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Wendell-- > > Thanks for the reply. This is the kind of info I'm having a hard time > getting from like w3schools.com, etc. > > In this particular case, though, I want the template that matches the > value of <child> to be agnostic to the markup that is in there, with no > more template processing, I just want whatever was already done (by > this point, that chunk of xml has been processed by other sheets, and > will be processed by later sheets) so I didn't want to do an explicit > match for the link tag. > > In general though, on the topic of apply-templates, there is a larger > issue that trips me up. Oftentimes, it seems that I mess up my set of > templates in such a way that things get matched and copied to the > output tree automatically, even though they are matched. To deal with > this, I've been sticking a template at the top of my sheets that is: > > <xsl:template match="text()"/> > > Is this bad style? Is it a crappy hack to deal with messed up > templates? Or is it the correct way to suppress default rules? > > I have situations where I have things along the lines of: > > <node> > <description>Foo</description> > <datum>1</datum> > <datum>2</datum> > </node> > > When I do something like: > > <xsl:template match="node"> > <h1><xsl:value-of select="description"/></h1> > <ul><xsl:apply-templates/><ul> > </xsl:template> > > <xsl:template match="node/datum"> > <li><xsl:value-of select="."/></li> > </xsl:template> > > I end up with: > > <h1>Foo</h1> > Foo <!-- Extraneous foo that I don't want --> > <ul> > <li>1</> > <li>2</2> > </ul> > > Tacking a <xsl:template match="text()"/> seems to catch the 'Foo' and > kill it, but why do I have to do this? Does the <apply-templates/> in > node automatically copy the text values of any child nodes that are not > explicitly matched? If so, why? Is it better to have an additional > template that specifically matches 'description' and does nothing? Or > to take the <h1><xsl:value-of select="description"/></h1> out and move > it into this explicit template? Or should I be doing something more > like <xsl:apply-templates select="datum"/>? > > Again, thanks. > > jeb.
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