Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: needing clarification about XSL transformation

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>]

On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Vitaly Ostanin wrote:

> With this style xslt-processor must not copy comments and PI.
> This style not overriding built-in templates, so saxon is
> incorrect.

  ah, so as i read this, the conflict resolution is that,
even if i have a template that matches "node()", that will
be overridden by the more explicit built-in rule that matches
"comment()" explicitly, whose effect is to do nothing with
the comment.

  perhaps it's just kay's wording, but in his book at the
bottom of p. 315, he writes (after a list of how template
matching is done):

  "If there are *no* [my emphasis] templates that match
the selected node, the built-in template for the relevant
node type is used."

  the way i read this is that the "node()" test *would*
match a comment(), and thus my template would be used.
apparently, that's not what he meant, but you can see
how it could be interpreted that way, i hope.

rday