XSLT - reuisition

[Cathy]

Hi,

What does <requisition> do? Do I need to have xsl:apply-templates in
order for the parser to look for other templates's match attributes?

Thanks.

 

[Martin Honnen]

Cathy wrote:

What does <requisition> do?

I don't think XSLT 1.0 defines any element with that tag name so I have
no clue what you are asking about.

 

[Joris Gillis]

Hi,

Are you , by any chance, referring to http://www.xmlpitstop.com/Books/0764543946/004/00025/76/SampleChapter.aspx ?

I'll assume you are.

'requisition' is just an invented element.
It's there to demonstrate how you can generate an XML output.

<xsl:apply-templates/> must be called to evaluate the children of the context node ( i.c. 'order')
If it is not called, no children will be evaluated, even if there are templates defined in the document who would match these children.
Use the 'select' attribute to specify exactly which nodes (relative to the context node) are to be evaluated (when not simply all child nodes must be evaluated).
Note that the 'select' and 'match' attributes do not have to be equal characterwise.

e.g. this will work:

<xsl:apply-templates select="node[@a='b']"/>

<xsl:template match="node">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>

regards,