CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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The Light
The Light

Reputation: 27011

How to call an xslt template which has no name?

My xslt template looks like this:

<xsl:template match="text()">
        <xsl:param name="precedingPStyle" select="preceding-sibling::aic:pstyle[position()=1]/@name"/>

</xsl:template>

Is above a valid xslt template? How/when can this template be called? it has no name, only a match and the match has a parameter.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 204

Answers (1)

Ian Roberts
Ian Roberts

Reputation: 122364

It will be called by xsl:apply-templates when it is the most appropriate template for the node selected. In the absence of any other more specific templates such as match="text()[normalize-space(.)]" this template would be applied for all text nodes.

For parameters, apply-templates supports with-param in exactly the same way as call-template does.

<xsl:apply-templates select="*/text()">
  <xsl:with-param name="precedingPStyle" select="'normal'"/>
</xsl:apply-templates>

The with-param select expression is evaluated in the context of the call, not the target node to which the template applies. As with call-template, any parameters that are not set with an explicit with-param will take the default value specified by the select expression on the xsl:param element in the template (which is evaluated in the context of the target, not the call)

Upvotes: 1

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