What does this do: <xsl:apply-templates select="." /> ?

KJ wrote:
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>What does this do: <xsl:apply-templates select="." /> ?
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Applies the best matching template for the current context node.

Unless inside a for-each, it will cause infinite recursion...

Soren

If inside a template, such as:

<xsl:template match="para" mode="note">
<xsl:apply-templates select="." /><br />
</xsl:template>

Then does it only match para's inside notes? Or does it match para's
children also, or what? I didn't write this, only trying to understand
someone else's code.

"KJ" <n_o_s_p_a__m@mail.com> wrote in message
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> If inside a template, such as:
>
> <xsl:template match="para" mode="note">
> <xsl:apply-templates select="." /><br />
> </xsl:template>
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> Then does it only match para's inside notes?[/color]

No, this template will only be selected for processing of a "para" element
if the corresponding xsl:apply-templates had its "mode" attribute set to
"note".

Once selected for processing it delegates this processing to the "normal"
template (without mode specified), that matches a "para".

This code may have been written when the author realised the need for a
special mode of processing "para"s but didn't have time to fully implement
it and as a first step just wrote the moded template as a wrapper of the
normal template.

Or such a template may include the normal processing and also do something
in addition (not shown in the above code) both before or after the normal
processing.
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> Or does it match para's
> children also,[/color]

No.

Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev

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> or what? I didn't write this, only trying to understand
> someone else's code.[/color]

So the <xsl:apply-templates select="." /> part of the block does the
delegation of processing to the "normal" template (without mode
specified) then?

"KJ" <n_o_s_p_a__m@mail.com> wrote in message
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> So the <xsl:apply-templates select="." /> part of the block does the
> delegation of processing to the "normal" template (without mode
> specified) then?[/color]

Yes

thanks so much to all

KJ <n_o_s_p_a__m@mail.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> What does this do: <xsl:apply-templates select="." /> ?[/color]

It produces an infinite loop.
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-Ap...Template-Rules

Greets
Andreas
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