Re: [xsl] nesting xml

[Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>]

Hi Tom,

Ah, well, in Mark's example, a template matching "text" would and should 
pick up everything, regardless of whether any explicit templates were given 
for the root (/) or document element (ROOT) ... since the built-in 
templates take care of them.

I was hearing you to say he'd have trouble if he didn't match them, which I 
guess isn't what you meant. In fact, if he did explicitly give templates 
for / or ROOT, they'd better say just what the defaults do, or his output 
won't come the way he expects. (Narrow bandwidth in here ain't it?)

Cheers,
Wendell

Mark's given source example:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ROOT>
  <text>
   <definition>
    <color>
     content
    </color>
    <size>
     content
    </size>
    <font>
     content
    </font>
   </definition>
   <data>
    content
   </data>
  </text>
</ROOT>

At 10:15 PM 5/3/01, you wrote:
>Yes, Wendell, I know, but then your output will be unrelated to your
>template (which may not ever get called, depending), so you get some kind of
>output but not what you thought you were designing.
>
>One example was Larry Mason's post from a little earlier.  When you run it,
>you get the same output no matter what's in the template (I tried it to be
>sure).
>
>Cheers,
>
>Tom P
>
>[Wendell Piez]
>
> > Tom--
> >
> > Not so. There is a built-in template
> >
> > <xsl:template match="/">
> >    <xsl:apply-templates/>
> > </xsl:template>
> >
> > which will pick up the root unless some other template beats it
> > in  precedence/priority (not hard to do).

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