Hi,

I posted a question earlier, did not quite get the answer I want.

I have xsl file like this:
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
 <xsl:template match="Chapter">
 <h2>
  Chapter
  <xsl:value-of select="@number"/>:
  <xsl:value-of select="@title"/>
 </h2>
 <xsl:apply-templates />
  </xsl:template>
 <xsl:template match="Section">
 <h3>
  <xsl:value-of select="@title"/>
 </h3>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

and xml file like this:
<Chapter number="13" title="Viewing XML Data on the Web">
 <Section title="Going from XML to HTML"/>
 <Section title="Serving Up Your XML Data"/>
</Chapter>


The result html:
<h2>Chapter 13: Viewing XML Data on the Web</h2>
<h3>Going from XML to HTML</h3>
<h3>Serving Up Your XML Data</h3>

If I removed <xsl:apply-templates /> from xsl file, the html will be:
<h2>Chapter 13: Viewing XML Data on the Web</h2>

What is <xsl:apply-templates /> doing on this occasion?
The explanation I got was, it tried to match children of current element
with the template. Does that mean it try to apply <xsl:template
match="Chapter"> template to all the children of <Chapter number="13"
.....>, that should not affect the result html file because there are no
Chapter elements in the children.

Thanks in Advance