RE: multilanguage support easily or including xml data dynamically

[Kay Michael <Michael dot Kay at icl dot com>]

> What does this <xsl:apply-templates...> really do? I read some 
> doc about it, but I still can't grasp the concept of it. Isn't it's 
> purpose to select things, such as <xsl:for-each>?

If you haven't understood xsl:apply-templates then you haven't understood
XSLT: it's rather fundamental.

It selects the set of nodes identified by the XPath expression in the select
attribute, and for each of these nodes, it looks for the "best match"
xsl:template rule to apply to that node. The "best match" is a template rule
whose match pattern matches the node, and if there are several, the one that
has the highest precedence/priority.

If there is no select attribute, it selects the children of the current
node.

Mike Kay


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