Changing the content of an XML document

[Andrew Welch]

> The identity transform will work, and is essentially the same as the
> transformation function that Wolfgang suggests. However I think a transform
> expression is easier to understand

The XSLT 2.0 identity transform is perhaps a little more intuitive:

<xsl:template match="element()">
  <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="@*,node()"/>
  </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="attribute()|text()|comment()|processing-instruction()">
  <xsl:copy/>
</xsl:template>

XQuery and XSLT should compliment each other - and the task of
modifying sections of a single document in a single pass is definitely
a job for XSLT.


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