Re: copy and translate an element and its children

J.Pietschmann wrote:

> Matthew L. Avizinis wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >  I am currently using
> >                <xsl:variable name="short-title">
> >                      <xsl:for-each select="title/node()">
> >                        <xsl:if test="not(position()=1)">
> >                          <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
> >                        </xsl:if>
> >                      </xsl:for-each>
> >                </xsl:variable>
> > This copies all nodes unchanged.
>
> Isn't it better to use
>  <xsl:variable name="short-title"
>     select="title/node()[position() &gt; 1]"/>
> Avoids copying.
Well, that's what I thought at first when I tried it before copy-of, but 
apparently all the child element attributes are not copied.  I needed a 
deep copy so that's why I used copy-of.  Thanks for your suggestions.

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