Hi,
    Joerg thanks.  I tried the code on a later java version of xalan and the attributes no longer were copied to next element.

    But after encountering the empty attribute the subsequent attribute was not copied.

    It seems the @*[.!=''|node()] did not match the non empty attribute but instead matched the next node.

    Could this be a bug as well?

thanks
    Dhruv





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