George thank you that was very clear!

Regards


George Bina wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Those are named templates that do nothing when you call them.
> They can be overwritten in a stylesheet that imports that stylesheet.
>
> For instance if you have
>
> a.xsl:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>   version="1.0">
>   <xsl:template name="a">in a</xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
>
> and test.xsl
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>   version="1.0">
>   <xsl:import href="a.xsl"/>
>   <xsl:template match="/">
>     <xsl:call-template name="a"/>
>   </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> you will get "in a" as output.
>
> But if you add an a template in test.xsl
> <xsl:template name="a">a in test.xsl</xsl:template>
> then you will get as output "a in test.xsl".
>
> Best Regards,
> George
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> George Cristian Bina
> <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
> www.---.com
>
> Brill2 wrote:
> > Dear Guru's, please forgive the newbie question but I have a problem I
> > can't seem to figure out.  I am supporting some old XSLT code and I see
> > the following code everywhere :
> >
> >                <xsl:template name="left"/>
> > 	<xsl:template name="middle">
> > 		<xsl:call-template name="lixwelcom"/>
> > 		<xsl:call-template name="lixlatnws"/>
> > 		<xsl:call-template name="lislstreq"/>
> > 		<xsl:if test="not($sec:group[@loc:id = 'LIBRARYSTAFF'])">
> > 			<xsl:call-template name="lislstsub"/>
> > 		</xsl:if>
> > 	</xsl:template>
> > 	<xsl:template name="right"/>
> > 	<xsl:include href="../core/lixwelcom.xsl"/>
> > 	<xsl:include href="../nws/lixlatnws.xsl"/>
> > 	<xsl:include href="../req/lislstreq.xsl"/>
> > 	<xsl:include href="../sub/lislstsub.xsl"/>
> > 	<xsl:include href="../default.xsl"/>
> >
> > My problem is with the tags named :
> > <xsl:template name="left"/>
> > <xsl:template name="right"/>
> >
> > I understand what the tag <xsl:template name="middle"> is doing because
> > it is defined, however the tags left and right are confusing the heck
> > outta me.  I don't understand, if a template is undefined like that is
> > it legal?  Or am I reading the syntax wrong and are these tags actually
> > calling a template somewhere named left and right?
> >
> > Are they just placeholders?
> >
> > I really cant get my brain around this one.  Any help would be
> > appreciated and maybe an explanation as to why someone would use xslt
> > in this way.
> > 
> > Again thank you for your help
> > Regards