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On 3/29/2014 10:05 AM, Abel Braaksma (Exselt) wrote:
I take this - that this is all old and decided and not going to change now - as your most significant point (but thanks for the full explanation!)xsl:copy-of allows deep-copying of a selected node (I would agree with Liam here, if this was named xsl:deep-copy, it would have been easier to memorize, but this name is here since XSLT 1.0, so there is little we can do about that now). A deep-copy means an immediate copy of the However, in hindsight, I suppose one might argue that an empty <xsl:copy> ought to function identically to <xsl:copy-of> (perform a deep copy). Then you could do (almost) everything they both do now with a single instruction. That would simplify things neatly. It would make it harder to create an empty node with the same name as the current node - but there are other ways to do that, and it's not a common need I think. -Mike
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