Re: copy and translate an element and its children

> Well, that's what I thought at first when I tried it before copy-of, but 
> apparently all the child element attributes are not copied.  I needed a 
> deep copy so that's why I used copy-of.  Thanks for your suggestions.

No, using position()> 1 would be equivalent (except more efficient)
than what you had. If you lost child element markup but got th
echaracter data you probably used value-of some-where (that's what
value-of does) but that is a separate issue than the selection.

David

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