How to apply-templates to all templates except a spefic one

Question

In the code bellow I'm applying all the templates to the element chapter (in the end of the code) but I would like to know how it is possible to apply all the templates to this element except a spefic one. In this case it's the element title because I'm already selecting it in the line before and it appears repeated in the html file. Someone?

<xsl:template match="chapter">
    <h3>
       <a name="{@id}"><xsl:value-of select="title"/></a>
    </h3>
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

Output:

<h3>Title</h3>
Title<br>
Text.

Answer 1

A plain <xsl:apply-templates/> is equivalent to <xsl:apply-templates select="node()" />, i.e. all child nodes. You can exclude certain nodes by using the XPath 2.0 except operator, e.g.

<xsl:apply-templates select="node() except title" />

This would select all child nodes except those that are elements with the name title. If you are only interested in child elements (not text nodes etc.) then you could use * except title instead.

The except operator essentially implements set difference - you're not limited to simple element names on the right, you can use any expression that returns a sequence of nodes, e.g.

node() except (title | div[@class = 'heading'])

X except Y selects all nodes that are in the sequence selected by X and not also in the sequence selected by Y