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Ok when we often use this trick:

<xsl:template match="...." mode="m1">my custom output</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="*" mode="m1"/>

it slowly becomes annoying to always have to do this:

<xsl:template match="*" mode="m1"/>
<xsl:template match="*" mode="m2"/>
<xsl:template match="*" mode="m3"/>
<xsl:template match="*" mode="m4"/>..

And if we do not do it it will give us the "default" template which basically outputs the text content for a text node.. eeks!

Is there a shortcut to the code above?:

Im thinking:

<xsl:template match="*" mode="m1|m2|m3|m4"/>

Well of course it 开发者_开发技巧doesn't work but you get my idea..

Is there a shortcut to the code above?:

Im thinking:

<xsl:template match="*" mode="m1|m2|m3|m4"/> 

Well of course it doesn't work but you get my idea..

Yes. In XSLT 2.0 one can have:

 <xsl:template match="*" mode="m1 m2 m3"/>

With XSLT 2.0 you can use <xsl:template match="*" mode="#all">...</xsl:template>, see http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#modes.

not as far as i know, using the mode suggests its explicit template you wish to call