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XSLT

by Doug Tidwell
August 2001
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
480 pages
11h 16m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

<xsl:apply-templates> — Instructs the XSLT processor to apply the appropriate templates to a node-set.

Category

Instruction

Required Attributes

None.

Optional Attributes

select

Contains an XPath expression that selects the nodes to which templates should be applied. Valid values include * to select the entire node-set. Without this attribute, all element children of the current node are selected.

mode

Defines a processing mode, a convenient syntax that lets you write specific templates for specific purposes. For example, I could write an <xsl:template> with mode="toc" to process a node for the table of contents of a document, and other <xsl:template>s with mode="print", mode="online", mode="index", etc. to process the same information for different purposes.

Content

The <xsl:apply-templates> element can contain any number of <xsl:sort> and <xsl:with-param> elements. In most cases, <xsl:apply-templates> is empty.

Appears in

<xsl:apply-templates> appears inside a template.

Defined in

XSLT section 5.4, Applying Template Rules.

Example

In our case study (see Chapter 9), we needed to create several different outputs from the same data. We addressed this need with the mode attribute of the <xsl:apply-templates> element. Here’s the main template (match="/"):

<xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:apply-templates select="tutorial" mode="build-main-index"/> <redirect:write select="concat($curDir, $fileSep, 'index.html')"> <xsl:apply-templates select="tutorial" mode="build-main-index"/> </redirect:write> ...
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Publisher Resources

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