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["alex chang" <shortestpath at hotmail dot com>]

Can someone please explain:

<xsl:template match="*" />

I was looking at an xsl file; it had the above line and right above it the 
comment:

<!-- The template with match="*" below is a fail-safe.  If at any point we 
get to a node in the XML tree that doesn't match any of our template match 
statements, we replace that node with blank space. -->


This is in the context of going through an xml file and creating an html 
table. I think I understand what this means, but when (or maybe even why) 
would a condition like this happen? I commented out <xsl:template match="*" 
/> and I still got the same table.

Thanks in advance,
-alex
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