template match="*" (asterisk) : Abbreivation « XPath « XML Tutorial

File: Data.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<list xml:lang="en">
  <title>title 1</title>
  <listitem>item 1</listitem>
  <listitem>item 2</listitem>
  <listitem>item 3</listitem>
  <listitem xml:lang="sw">item 4</listitem>
  <listitem xml:lang="en-gb">item 5</listitem>
  <listitem xml:lang="zu">item 6</listitem>
  <listitem xml:lang="jz">item 7</listitem>
</list>

File: Transform.xslt

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

  <xsl:output method="xml"/>

  <xsl:template match="*">
    <xsl:copy/>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Output:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><list/>

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::