XML by Example

The section element, however, matches the default template and the proces-

sor moves to its children, title, and

p elements. The processor continues to

match rules with nodes until it has exhausted all the nodes in the original

document.

Creating Nodes in the Resulting Tree

Sometimes it is useful to compute the value or the name of new nodes. The

following template creates an HTML anchor element that points to the

URL. The anchor has two attributes. The first one, TARGET, is specified

directly in the template. However, the processor computes the second

attribute,

HREF, when it applies the rule.

<xsl:template match=”url”>

<A TARGET=”_blank”>

<xsl:attribute ...