Re: Re: Creating a XSL to return the input

On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Dimitre Novatchev wrote:

> 
> "John Chen" <jchen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:5.0.2.1.0.20030304115132.00b604e0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > I would like to create an XSL that takes an XML file and returns it as its
> > output. Is that easy to do?
> 
> Yes, use:
> 
> <xsl:copy-of select="/"/>
> 
> A lot more useful (because it can be overridden) is the following template,
> known as the "identity transformation":
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#copying
> 
> <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
>   <xsl:copy>
>     <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
>   </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>

don't forget that it was something just like this that provoked
my original posting about what match=node() really meant, and i'm
still wading through the responses, trying to summarize them.

in a nutshell, if you use that transform, xsltproc and saxon
behave differently:

  saxon will copy over comments and processing instructions,
  xsltproc will not

so, remind me again -- which one is behaving correctly?

rday


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