Re: Simple XML to HTML XSLT question

Andreas L Delmelle <[email protected]> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 19:37:04 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.text.xml.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Jan 7, 2006, at 18:26, Sebastian Tennant wrote:

Hi,

Note: this isn't actually the right list to pose questions like  
these. Try Mulberry's XSLT List in the future.

> Why doesn't this work?
>
> Code snippets from XSL file:
>
>   <tr>
>     <td align="right">
>     <xsl:apply-templates select="/page/leftCol/*" />
>     </td>
>   </tr>
>
>   [...]
>
>   <xsl:template match="leftCol">
>     <xsl:value-of select="item" /><br />
>   </xsl:template>

The latter template never gets applied, unless you make the former:

<xsl:apply-templates select="/page/leftCol" />

HTH!

Cheers,

Andreas