Re: [xsl] deep "copy-of" a source fragment

[Terence Kearns <terencek at isd dot canberra dot edu dot au>]

Please see post in response to Dave on the resolution to my problem...

I've included responses to this email below...

Peter Davis wrote:
> <xsl:template match="/">
>   <xsl:copy-of select="html/body/node()"/>
> </xsl:template>
This works but only after I apply the namespaces as per the solution in 
my other post (replied to dave)

> An alternative to using copy-of is to use the "identity template", which can 
> look something like this (untested):
>
> <!-- ignore all nodes unless otherwise specified -->
> <xsl:template match="node()" priority="0"/>
>
> <xsl:template match="/html/body//@* | /html/body//node()">
>   <xsl:copy>
>     <xsl:apply-templates select="@*"/>
>     <xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>
>   </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
>
> You might want to go this route if you ever want to apply other templates to 
> specific elements in the /html/body//* tree.  Using xsl:copy-of doesn't allow 
> you to modify the output of the copy with other templates.  If you don't 
> think you'll ever need to apply other templates, then copy-of should work 
> fine.
Ah yes, I _will_ be attempting to apply other template rules to the 
content so I will definately take your advice on this one. Now that I 
have the namespaces sorted out, I should be able to easily apply the 
identity transformation method. Thanks for the tip!



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