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XSLT Element

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Definition and Usage

The element applies templates to the current element or its child nodes.

If we add a select attribute to the element, it will only process the child elements that match the value of this attribute. We can use the select attribute to specify the order of the child nodes to be processed.

Syntax

<xsl:apply-templates select="expression" mode="name">
    <!-- Content:(xsl:sort|xsl:with-param)* -->
</xsl:apply-templates>

Attributes

Attribute	Value	Description
select	expression	Optional. Specifies which nodes to process. An asterisk selects the entire node set. If omitted, all child nodes of the current node are selected.
mode	name	Optional. If there are multiple processing methods defined for the same element, mode can be used to distinguish them.

Example 1

Surround each title element in the document with an h1 element:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:template match="title">
  <h1><xsl:apply-templates/></h1>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Example 2

Surround all title elements that are children of message in the document with an h1 element:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:template match="message">
  <h1><xsl:apply-templates select="title"/></h1>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Example 3

Surround all child nodes of message where the mode attribute is set to "big" in the document with an h1 element:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:template match="message">
  <h1><xsl:apply-templates select="*" mode="big"/></h1>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

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