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The following 4 templates are always considered to be part of the XSLT stylesheet these templates allow to continue recursive processing in the absence of a successful pattern match by an user-defined template rule in the stylesheet.
A template that will make sure processing is continued when encountering any node (including root).
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="*|/">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
A template that will make sure processing is continued using the same mode value.
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="*|/" mode="m">
<xsl:apply-templates mode="m"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
A template rule for text and attribute nodes that copies text through.
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="text()|@*">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
A template rule for processing instructions and comments that does nothing.
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:template match="processing-instruction()|comment()"/> </xsl:stylesheet>