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Why aren't rules matched with "*"?
- To: "XSL List (E-mail)" <xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com>
- Subject: Why aren't rules matched with "*"?
- From: Charles Cantrell <chc at ontario dot com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 08:46:52 -0500
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
I have the following rule in my xsl stylesheet.
<xsl:template match="Para">
<p">
<xsl:apply-templates
select="Menu|Table|WindowID|Illustration|Prompt|ErrMsg|text()"/>
</p>
</xsl:template>
and it successfully matches and applies rules for each of the templates
specified in the "select" expression. For example, the following rule for
"Menu" is matched:
<xsl:template match="Menu">
<xsl:if test="contains(.,'1,1,4,1')">
THIS IS <i>REALLY</i> MENU 1,4,1,1
</xsl:if>
<strong style="font-family: arial; color:green"><xsl:value-of
select="text()"/></strong>
</xsl:template>
However, if I change the rule to:
<xsl:template match="Para">
<p>
<xsl:apply-templates select="*"/>
</p>
</xsl:template>
then no templates are matched.
Why aren't the Menu, Table and so on rules matched, as well as others? I
thought that the "*" was a universal selector, and so should get everything.
What is it that I don't understand here. Thanks.
Charles Cantrell
Information Engineer
Ontario Systems Corporation
1150 West Kilgore Avenue
Muncie, IN 47305
(765) 751-7000
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