The first method never succeeds so the default template is applied.  The default template for a text node copies text nodes to the output.  The second template succeeds in matching the <template  match=”item”> and fails on the <xsl:if test=”@distribution!='both'”> so the default template is never applied.

Edward Middleton

-----Original Message-----
From: john liao [mailto:jliao2k@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 11:49 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  difference btw match="item[@distribution!='both']" and
test="@distribution!='both"


Hi list

I found the two methods yield slightly different
results w.r.t <![CDATA]>. In the first template match
the contents of CDATA is produced, but the <xsl:if
test method does not produce it. What's the
difference?

"item" looks like this:
<item distribution="both">
<![CDATA
contents of CDATA
]]
</item>

and the templates look like this:

<xsl:template match="item[@distribution!='both']"
...
...
</xsl:template>      ==> contents of CDATA show up

<xsl:template match="item">
   <xsl:if test="@distribution!='both'">
      ...
      ...
   </xsl:if>
</xsl:template>      ==> produces nothing (which is
what I want)


     

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