how to prevent xsl:copy collapsing <ll></ll> to <ll/>

I am trying to convert one xml file to a very similar xml file wherein some of
the original xml elements have default attributes added (if they are missing),
etc.

As most of my elements/nodes are passed through unchanged, I am trying to
provide a "default" template that just copies the matched node through. To test
xsl:copy I tried the following "identity" stylesheet:

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<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
    <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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This works EXCEPT

1) input of, for example, <Text></Text> is collapsed in the output to <Text/>

How do I prevent this collapsing?

2) The original encoding and DOCTYPE information is lost.

Is there anyway to copy this information through as well?

I also tried the following variations with the same results

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<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
  <xsl:template match="*">
      <xsl:element name="{name(.)}" >
          <xsl:apply-templates
select="*|@*|comment()|processing-instruction()|text()"/>
      </xsl:element>
  </xsl:template>
  <xsl:template match="@*|comment()|processing-instruction()|text()">
      <xsl:copy>
          <xsl:apply-templates
select="@*|comment()|processing-instruction()|text()"/>
      </xsl:copy>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
  <xsl:template match="*|@*|comment()|processing-instruction()|text()">
      <xsl:copy >
          <xsl:apply-templates
select="*|@*|comment()|processing-instruction()|text()"/>
      </xsl:copy>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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