On 17/03/2008, Ian Proudfoot <ian.proudfoot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thank you Andrew. I was not aware of the sibling recursion template.
>  As I was already using the basic identity transform template, I replaced it
>  with the modified version, but now some elements are not being copied to the
>  output. Should it be possible to swap these two templates without re-working
>  other templates?

Not really because a node that doesn't apply-templates to it's
following sibling will stop the recursion, whereas using the standard
identity the following sibling will get processed because of the
existing apply-templates call that was made from its parent.

For example:

<foo>
   <bar/>
   <baz/>
   <bar/>
</foo>

with a no-op template for baz:

<xsl:template match="baz"/>

Here using the standard identity template both <bar>s will get
processed because of the <xsl:apply-templates/> call when the context
node was <foo>.

However using sibling recursion only the first <bar> is processed from
<foo>, then <baz/> then it stops, so using sibling recursion every
template has a responsibility to process its following sibling.


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