ref:Jarno Elovirta Re: RE: [xsl] Filtering elements of a tree

["william locksman" <vsd18 at rediffmail dot com>]

  hi jarno..
  please forgive me for my ignorence.. can you throw some light on 
the following two expressions which you have made use
  1.    <xsl:copy-of select="@*" />
  2.     <xsl:apply-templates select="*[@id = '7' or 
descendant::*/@id = '7']"/>

  can you please explain me what the above two statements does..
  sorry abt this ... but i found it important to ask u this 
question
  thanks

>On Wed, 08 May 2002 Jarno.Elovirta@nokia.com wrote :
>>Heppa,
>>
>> > I want to select the element artist with id=7 and its 
>>parent,
>> > grand parent and so on.
>> > After transformation the xml should look like this-
>> >
>> > <TreeNode id="5" Text="music">
>> >  	<TreeNode id="6" Text="blues">
>> >  		<TreeNode id="7" Text="bb king"/>
>> >  	</TreeNode>
>> >  	<TreeNode id="6" Text="jazz">
>> >  		<TreeNode id="11" Text="bebop">
>> >  			<TreeNode id="7" Text="charlie parker"/>
>> >  		</TreeNode>
>> >  		<TreeNode id="7" Text="miles davis"/>
>> >  	</TreeNode>
>> > </TreeNode>
>>
>><xsl:template match="*">
>>   <TreeNode>
>>     <xsl:copy-of select="@*" />
>>     <xsl:apply-templates select="*[@id = '7' or 
>>descendant::*/@id = '7']"/>
>>   </TreeNode>
>></xsl:template>
>>
>>There are better solutions,
>>
>>Santtu
>>
>>  XSL-List info and archive:  
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>>
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