What does this do: <xsl:apply-templates select="." />

[KJ]

What does this do: <xsl:apply-templates select="." /> ?

 

[Soren Kuula]

What does this do: <xsl:apply-templates select="." /> ?

Applies the best matching template for the current context node.

Unless inside a for-each, it will cause infinite recursion...

Soren

 

[KJ]

If inside a template, such as:

<xsl:template match="para" mode="note">
<xsl:apply-templates select="." /><br />
</xsl:template>

Then does it only match para's inside notes? Or does it match para's
children also, or what? I didn't write this, only trying to understand
someone else's code.

 

[Dimitre Novatchev]

If inside a template, such as:

<xsl:template match="para" mode="note">
<xsl:apply-templates select="." /><br />
</xsl:template>

Then does it only match para's inside notes?

No, this template will only be selected for processing of a "para" element
if the corresponding xsl:apply-templates had its "mode" attribute set to
"note".

Once selected for processing it delegates this processing to the "normal"
template (without mode specified), that matches a "para".

This code may have been written when the author realised the need for a
special mode of processing "para"s but didn't have time to fully implement
it and as a first step just wrote the moded template as a wrapper of the
normal template.

Or such a template may include the normal processing and also do something
in addition (not shown in the above code) both before or after the normal
processing.

Or does it match para's
children also,

No.

Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev

 

[KJ]

So the <xsl:apply-templates select="." /> part of the block does the
delegation of processing to the "normal" template (without mode
specified) then?

 

[Dimitre Novatchev]

So the <xsl:apply-templates select="." /> part of the block does the
delegation of processing to the "normal" template (without mode
specified) then?

Yes

 

[KJ]

thanks so much to all

 

[Andreas Kraftl]

What does this do: <xsl:apply-templates select="." /> ?

It produces an infinite loop.
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-Applying-Template-Rules

Greets
Andreas