Sorry to all for the misinformation! (red face >-:) Apparently it was
also true of a very early version of LotusXSL which is where 
I 'mislearned' this.

Sara

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kay Michael [mailto:Michael.Kay@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 1:53 AM
> To: 'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: my output just contains xsl code
> 
> 
> > From: sara.mitchell@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:sara.mitchell@xxxxxxxxx]
> > 
> > You fell foul of one requirement that may seem obvious (but others
> > have also missed it including myself): At least one of your 
> templates
> > must 'select' a node to apply the template to. 
> 
> No this isn't true (not with a conformant XSLT 1.0 processor, 
> anyway). If no
> template rule matches a node, the built-in template rule 
> kicks in, and does
> an <xsl:apply-templates/> to its child nodes automatically.
> 
> But the statement is true, IIRC, for Microsoft IE5 1998 XSL, 
> as this is one
> of the many XSLT features it didn't implement.
> 
> Mike Kay
> 
> 
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