But I was more thinking along the lines of

         <xsl:copy-of select="coreattrs"/>

        where coreattrs has been defined elsewhere in the XSL.



<xsl:call-template name="coreattrs"/>


....

<xsl:template name="coresttrs">
  <xsl:copy-of select="@id|@class|@this|@that"/>
</xsl:template>

David

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