XML Companion, The, Third Edition

Templates

The body of the stylesheet consists of at least one transformation rule, as represented by the Template element:

<template ... >
  ...
</template>

In practice, a stylesheet typically contains a large number of rules, each one defining the transformation to be applied to a specific element in the source document, using the Match attribute, which contains an XPath expression. The following example demonstrates two rules: one for all Paragraph elements, and one for Emphasis elements:

<template match="para">
  ...
</template>

<template match="emph">
  ...
</template>

Multiple element template

When the same transformation rules apply to a number of elements, it is convenient to be able to use the same template for all the elements concerned. ...