Sounds a reasonable idea. inherit-namespaces=no could also be handy,
especially as inheriting of namespaces can cause a heavy cost (though adding
features that improve performance isn't a big win; most people won't use
them).

Michael Kay
Saxonica

> On 19 May 2020, at 08:49, Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> XSLT 3 has a declarative way with xsl:mode and on-no-match being one of
> deep-copy, shallow-copy, deep-skip, shallow-skip, text-only-copy.
>
> With XSLT 2 and 3 xsl:copy and xsl:copy-of also have some improvement to
> XSLT 1 by allowing the use of the copy-namespaces attribute with "no".
>
> Sometimes I would want to declare
>
>  <xsl:mode on-no-match="shallow-copy" copy-namespaces="no"/>
>
> Is that feasible?