Hi all,

I'm quite new to XSLT and am having a little bit of trouble. I have a stylesheet that is running through my XML document which contains a list of commands. Once all the known commands have been matched I want to somehow take all the elements that don't match any of my templates and output these as unrecognised commands.
I'm grateful for any suggestions anyone might have,

Thanks in advance,
Clare

Hi Clare, can you give an example of you xml input and expected output? It sounds like you need a catch all template

Meanwhile, here's an example that may help

xml:
----
<commands>
    <command1 />
    <command2 />
    <command3 />
    <command4 />
    <command5 />
</commands>

xslt:
-----
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:template match="commands">
        <xsl:apply-templates />
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="command1">
           recognised : command1<br />
       </xsl:template>

       <xsl:template match="command2">
           recognised : command2<br />
       </xsl:template>


       <xsl:template match="*">
           unrecognised : <xsl:value-of select="name()" /><br />
       </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

output:
-------
recognised : command1
recognised : command2
unrecognised : command3
unrecognised : command4
unrecognised : command5

Hi there,

I will look into the catch all template. Thank you for that.
My XML looks something like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<PRNFile xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
    <printerdetails xmlns=""/>
    <commands xmlns="">
        <command position="0">1B5B4B0200001F424A4</command>
        <command position="16">436F6E74726</command>
        <command position="35">53657454</command>
        <command position="58">1B40</command>
     </commands>
 </PRNFile>

I have a number of templates one of which looks something like this:

<xso:template match="command[.='1B40']">
   <name>Return to Neutral Mode</name>
   <code>1B40</code>
</xso:template>

The codes within the command elements represent inkjet printer commands and as I will not be able to "translate" every command I want a template that assuming I have templates to match all the commands in the XML except <command position="35">53657454</command>
then I want to have a template that catches this unknown and outputs say:

<unknowns >
<unknown position="35">53657454</unknown>
</unknowns>

Thanks again,
Clare

Ah, OK I understand now. The more specific the query is the higher priority the XSLT template is so I can have my various templates seraching for teh values I know about and then just have a "command" template whcih will receive the lowest priority and pick up all the unrecognised elements.