>  Interesting.....It worked.

Why? That is how xslt works.

>  If I change the expression for match to /A/B//C instead of / 
>  ie,similar to the match expression in the next rule then it 
>  wont work. Why is it so?

But it will. Try this. But it won't give you the output you want.

<?xml version="1.0"?> 
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> 
<xsl:template match="/A/B//C"> 
	<Message> 
		<xsl:element name="{@attr1}"> 
			<xsl:apply-templates /> 
			<xsl:value-of select="@attr2"/> 
		 </xsl:element> 
	 </Message> 
</xsl:template> 
<xsl:template match="T"/> 
</xsl:stylesheet> 

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