<xsl:apply-templates> vs <xsl:call-template/>
Sometimes, though, you want to do something fancier. In that case, you can create a special template that doesn't match any particular node. For example:
<xsl:template name="print-hello-world"> <xsl:value-of select="concat( bar, ' ' , boo )" /></xsl:template>And you can then call this template while you're processing <foo> rather than automatically processing foo's child nodes:
<xsl:template match="foo"> <xsl:call-template name="print-hello-world"/></xsl:template>In this particular artificial example, you now get "Hello World" because you've overriden the default processing to do your own thing.