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Bryan Rasmussen
sorry, I was under the impression that tag2 would always be text, and that text
would be having the default text() template.


Quoting David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>:

> 
> > This is just a personal preference though. 
> 
> Not really, as it produces a different result. Sometimes you need one
> of those results and sometimes the other.
> 
> you have
> 
> <xsl:template match="tag2" mode="copier">
> <i><xsl:apply-templates/></i>
> </xsl:template> 
> 
> which means tag2 gets turned into i but the contents of tag2 are not
> copied they get the default mode applied (which presumably doesn't copy)
> 
> The originally proposed solution would be equivalent to
> 
> 
> <xsl:template match="tag2" mode="copier">
> <i><xsl:apply-templates mode="copier"/></i>
>                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> </xsl:template> 
> 
> which would change tag2 to i but recursively copy its content (except
> for any nested tag2 elements of course).
> 
> I find that, normally, I'd want this second form.
> 
> David
> 
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