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Sean Tiley wrote:
2) - Also related to the first template. Why do I need the <xsl:template match="@* | node()"> and <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/> in the <xsl:copy/> tag? I would have thought in the template match "/" would have sufficed. (When I try that, I just get the values from the nodes). Well if you want to copy everything (the XSLT data model covers) then <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:copy-of select="/"/> </xsl:template> suffices but that is not an approach where you can work in additional templates. With the identity transformation template written as <xsl:template match="@* | node()"> <xsl:copy> <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/> </xsl:copy> </xsl:template> you can add templates to override the template for nodes that you want to change. So using xsl:copy for a shallow copy and xsl:apply-templates to process attributes and child elements gives additional templates a chance to be applied on each step. -- Martin Honnen http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/
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