On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Dimitre Novatchev wrote:
"John Chen" <jchen(_at_)parasoft(_dot_)com> wrote in message
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I would like to create an XSL that takes an XML file and returns it as its
output. Is that easy to do?
Yes, use:
<xsl:copy-of select="/"/>
A lot more useful (because it can be overridden) is the following template,
known as the "identity transformation":
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#copying
<xsl:template match="@*|node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
don't forget that it was something just like this that provoked
my original posting about what match=node() really meant, and i'm
still wading through the responses, trying to summarize them.
in a nutshell, if you use that transform, xsltproc and saxon
behave differently:
saxon will copy over comments and processing instructions,
xsltproc will not
so, remind me again -- which one is behaving correctly?
rday
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