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Implicit templates

If an explicit template is not found for the matched element, an implicit template is used instead. This implicit template calls xsl:apply-templates with select equal to node(), it means that all children nodes are selected.

XSLT

      <xsl:stylesheet
                  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                  version="2.0">
            <xsl:output  method="xml"
                        indent="yes"
                        omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

            <xsl:template  match="/aaa">
                  <xxx>
                        <xsl:apply-templates/>
                  </xxx>
                  <yyy>
                        <xsl:apply-templates  select="bbb/ccc/ddd"/>
                  </yyy>
            </xsl:template>

            <xsl:template  match="ddd">
                  <DDD/>
            </xsl:template>

      </xsl:stylesheet>
XML

      <aaa>
            <bbb>
                  <ccc>
                        <ddd/>
                  </ccc>
            </bbb>
      </aaa>
Output

      <xxx>
            <DDD/>
      </xxx>
      <yyy>
            <DDD/>
      </yyy>


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