How does apply-templates work?

Question

I have just started learning XSL(T) and I wonder how apply-templates work? I do not understand the recursively applies templates part of it as it is written in my b

Answer 1

You use to invoke the :s you have defined.

calls a matching template for each node in the set.

You can control processing order by specifying a select attribute on apply-templates.

See this example from w3schools:

  
  
  
My CD Collection
  
  
  



  

  
  
  



  Title: 
  
  




  Artist: 
  
  

• The first apply-templates calls the cd template each time an element named "cd" is encountered.

• The cd template, in turn calls the title and artist templates to process the children elements of .

• title is processed before artist. Note, that the order of artist and title elements in the source XML makes no difference.

You could think of apply-templates as analoguous to a subroutine call in procedural languages.