No, there can be lots of other differences:
* attributes re-ordered
* redundant namespace declarations removed
* different whitespace within start tags
* use of " versus ' around attribute values
* empty elements minimized (<a></a> versus <a/>)
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
-----Original Message-----
From: andrew welch [mailto:andrew(_dot_)j(_dot_)welch(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com]
Sent: 30 August 2005 12:32
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] Roundtripability of identity transform
Can it be assumed that the output of the transform:
<xsl:template match="@*|*|node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|*|node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
will be an exact copy of the input XML apart from:
-The output will be minus the doctype
-The output will contain any defaulted elements/attributes
-All entities will be expanded
-The output might be in different encoding (although I'm talking
differences above the byte level here).
Are there any other things to be aware of?
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