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applying templates to all descendants
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- Subject: [xsl] applying templates to all descendants
- From: Adam Van Den Hoven <Adam dot Hoven at bluezone dot net>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 10:57:44 -0800
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Lets say that I have the following XML (borrowed from MS)
<COLLECTION>
<BOOK>
<TITLE>Cosmos</TITLE>
<AUTHOR>Carl Sagan</AUTHOR>
<PUBLISHER>Ballantine Books</PUBLISHER>
</BOOK>
<BOOK>
<TITLE>Catwings</TITLE>
<AUTHOR>Ursula K. Le Guin</AUTHOR>
<PUBLISHER>Scholastic</PUBLISHER>
</BOOK>
<BOOK>
<TITLE>Home Town</TITLE>
<AUTHOR>Tracy Kidder</AUTHOR>
<PUBLISHER>Random House</PUBLISHER>
</BOOK>
</COLLECTION>
and an XSL file that contains:
<xsl:template match="/" >
...STUFF...
<xsl:apply-templates select="/COLLECTION//*" />
...STUFF...
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template select="BOOK">
...STUFF...
<xsl:apply-templates select="*" />
...STUFF...
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template select="TITLE">
...STUFF...
</xsl:template>
will the TITLE template get executed in the context of the root template AND
the BOOK template or just the BOOK template. That is, having matched a node
to a template, will apply-templates continue to make matches to its
descendants.
I suppose I could avoid complication by making use of modes (and I will do
that regardless), I'm really interested in knowing what the behaviour is.
> Adam van den Hoven
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