suprised by <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>

I was suprised that this template:

<xsl:template match="cell">
    <td>
        <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
        <xsl:apply-templates/>
    </td>
</xsl:template>

against this XML:

<cell colspan="2" bgcolor="#CC0000">
   some other stuff...    
</cell>

produced this output:

<td colspan="2" bgcolor="#CC0000">
    result of transform on other stuff...
</td>

Why did I get
<td colspan="2" bgcolor="#CC0000">
instead of
<td>colspan="2" bgcolor="#CC0000"
?????

I am using xalan-j_2_0_1

Thanks, Gerry



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