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Apply template, select from a list
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File: Data.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<books>
<book category="reference">
<author>author1</author>
<title>title 1</title>
<price>8.95</price>
</book>
<book category="fiction">
<author>author 2</author>
<title>title 2</title>
<price>12.99</price>
</book>
<book category="fiction">
<author>author 3</author>
<title>title 3</title>
<price>8.99</price>
</book>
</books>
File: Transform.xslt
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="2.0">
<xsl:template match="books">
<html>
<body>
<h1>A list of books</h1>
<table width="640">
<xsl:apply-templates />
</table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="book">
<tr>
<td>
<xsl:number />
</td>
<xsl:apply-templates select="author, title, price" />
</tr>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="author | title | price">
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="." />
</td>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Output:
<html>
<body>
<h1>A list of books</h1>
<table width="640">
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>author1</td>
<td>title 1</td>
<td>8.95</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td>author 2</td>
<td>title 2</td>
<td>12.99</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td>author 3</td>
<td>title 3</td>
<td>8.99</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
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