After my hasty answer, Andrew, I looked at your email again and
thought that, indeed, there should be no difference.
So I executed your code with the combined template, and I do, in
fact, get the same result. Results below with Saxon.
Did you invoke the wrong files, perhaps?
. . . . . Ken
t:\ftemp>type andrew.xml
<resource>
<method href="ref1"/>
<method href="ref2"/>
<method href="ref3"/>
</resource>
t:\ftemp>xslt2 andrew.xml andrew.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><resource>
<method href="ref1"/>
</resource>
t:\ftemp>type andrew.xsl
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
>
<xsl:template
match="
/
| @*
| method[@href = 'ref1']
| node()
">
<xsl:call-template name="identity"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="method"/>
<xsl:template name="identity">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node() " />
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
t:\ftemp>
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