Re: build-in template question

Hello,

I have a question concerning text nodes. If I have an xml file like

<root>
  <e>text</e>
</root>

and a template like

<xsl:template match="e">
  <xsl:copy/>
</xsl:template>

than, the output will be "<e>text</e>".

Is the text insterted to the output by xsl:copy or by the build-in template

<xsl:template match="text()|@*">
  <xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>
?

<root>
  <e>text</e>
</root>

t:\ftemp>type garvin.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                version="1.0">

<xsl:template match="e">
  <xsl:copy/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
t:\ftemp>xslt garvin.xml garvin.xsl con
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
  <e/>

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