RE: child and descendant: what is the difference really

Essentially, all I want is for everything between the <ni:body> tags to be
copied to the output HTML. I have solved this with the following:

<xsl:template match="ni:body"> 
<xsl:copy-of select="node()" /> 
</xsl:template> 

This copies all the children of the current node (because node() means
child::node()), with their descendants (because xsl:copy-of is recursive).  

but I don't understand my answer as I would have expected: 

<xsl:copy-of select="text() | descendant::node()" /> 

The problem with this is that it will copy nodes more than once. It copies
each of the descendant nodes (because of the descendant::node(), and for
each one it copies all its descendants  (because xsl:copy-of is recursive).

Mike Kay  




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