Re: build-in template question

Garvin Riensche wrote, On 2008-09-05 00:17:

Hello,

I have a question concerning text nodes. If I have an xml file like

<root>
  <e>text</e>
</root>

and a template like

<xsl:template match="e">
  <xsl:copy/>
</xsl:template>

than, the output will be "<e>text</e>".

Is the text insterted to the output by xsl:copy or by the build-in template

<xsl:template match="text()|@*">
  <xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>
?

During evaluation of applicable templates on a particular node, the most specific template is chosen.

If two or more templates is of the same level of specification, then the template with the highest priority is chosen.

I have forgotten what happens if two templates cannot be separated (a situaiton that I try to avoid), although a qualified guess is that an XSLT 1.0 processor does something and an XSLT 2.0 processor returns an error message.

Anyway, in this case, the match="e" is more specifc than match="text()|@*" so the first template is chosen.

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