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XML Tutorial » XPath » Abbreivation 
4. 10. 1. Wildcard "*" selects all possibilities
File: Data.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<employee>
  <firstName>Joe</firstName>
  <surname>Smith</surname>
</employee>
File: Transform.xslt

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet
      version="1.0"
      xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

    <xsl:template match="*">
      <div>
        <xsl:text>[template: </xsl:text>
        <xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
        <xsl:text> outputs </xsl:text>
        <xsl:apply-templates/>
        <xsl:text> ]</xsl:text>
      </div>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Output:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><div>[template: employee outputs 
  <div>[template: firstName outputs Joe ]</div>
  <div>[template: surname outputs Smith ]</div>
 ]</div>
4. 10. Abbreivation
4. 10. 1. Wildcard "*" selects all possibilities
4. 10. 2. "//" has two meanings
4. 10. 3. List the elements in an xml document
4. 10. 4. Count elements and attributes
4. 10. 5. template match="*" (asterisk)
4. 10. 6. template match="brand|name|units"
4. 10. 7. template match="/"
4. 10. 8. value-of select="."
4. 10. 9. Axis child:: can be be omitted from a location step as it is the default axis.
4. 10. 10. .. is short for parent::
4. 10. 11. // is short for /descendant-or-self::
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