RE: XQuery Updates in XSLT

> Peace or war, sometimes I wonder why the identity template 
> isn't the default, built-in template. 

For XSLT 2.1 we are proposing that it should be possible to choose the
built-in templates for a mode by a simple keyword, for example

<xsl:mode default-action="copy"/>

might specify that the default template for the unnamed mode is the identity
template.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/