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[Brian Martinez wrote:] > > > <xsl:template match="/"> > > > <textarea> > > > <xsl:copy-of select="*"/> > > > </textarea> > > > </xsl:template> > > > > From: Lars Huttar > > > > Just out of curiosity, and because I'm learning: > > Wouldn't the above copy-of fail to copy any non-element > > children of the > > root node? E.g. comments and PI's... > > (He did say "the entire XML document.") > > No. If the comments and PIs (by that I assume you mean processing > instructions) are children of the root or context node, > xsl:copy-of will > write them to the result tree. > > cheers, > b. What I meant was that because your <xsl:copy-of> used select="*", it would only operate on element children of the root node. So comments/PIs would only be copied if they were descendants of the document node, not if they were children of "/". I tried this with a sample document, and sure enough, top-level comments and processing instructions were lost. That may not matter to the original poster but I just wanted to make sure I was understanding right. <?xml version="1.0"?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="test-select.xsl"?> <!-- This comment is lost. --> <doc>The document node. <child>A child node.</child> </doc> <!-- Another pesky comment. --> <?pi r squared but we dont care?> The output from your template: <textarea><doc>The document node. <child>A child node.</child> </doc></textarea> Regards, Lars XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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