June 2008
Intermediate to advanced
986 pages
27h 8m
English
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Name
[2.0] <xsl:next-match>
Tells the XSLT processor to select a template that is
the next lowest in priority than the current template. This works
similarly to <xsl:apply-imports>, although <xsl:next-match> works with all
templates, including those in the main stylesheet and in any
stylesheets included or imported. Using <xsl:next-match> allows you to set up
templates that work like overridden methods in object-oriented
languages; using <xsl:next-match> is conceptually the
same as calling super() in a
Java program.
Category
Instruction.
Required Attributes
None.
Optional Attributes
None.
Content
Any number of <xsl:with-param> and <xsl:fallback> elements.
Appears in
<xsl:next-match>
appears inside a template.
Defined in
[2.0] XSLT section 6.7, “Overriding Template Rules.”
Example
For our example, we’ll create some templates to process this HTML document:
<!-- element-discussion.html -->
<html>
<head>
<title>Interesting new XSLT elements</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Interesting new XSLT elements</h1>
<p>XSLT 2.0 has lots of interesting new elements.
We'll mention a couple of them here. </p>
<h1>The <code><xsl:next-match></code> element</h1>
<p>One of the most interesting new elements in XSLT 2.0
is <code><xsl:next-match></code>. </p>
<h1>The <code><xsl:perform-sort></code> element</h1>
<p>Don't forget about <code><xsl:perform-sort></code>,
though. It's very interesting as well.</p>
</body>
</html>Our example document has HTML <code>
elements. Some of them are inside <h1> elements, ...
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