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Am 21.08.2014 um 19:59 schrieb Michael Kay: > If the parent has a content model A, B, C, D, and any of the four might be absent, then you could try doing > > <xsl:apply-templates select="optional(A, $A), optional(B, $B), optional(C, $C), optional(D, $D)"/> > > where optional(X, Y) is a function that selects X if present or Y otherwise, and $A, $B etc are global variables containing default elements of each type (or some other marker to indicate that the element is absent). Can the function be avoided by writing <xsl:apply-templates select="(A, $A)[1], (B, $B)[1], (C, $C)[1], (D, $D)[1]"/> This method was mentioned earlier in this list and I used it since several times as a method to handle default values. - Michael
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