> From: Lars Huttar [mailto:lars_huttar@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 2:46 PM
> Subject: RE:  Select entire XML doc
> 
> > copy-of is a deep copy; it copies all attributes, child 
> > elements and content
> > to the output tree.  value-of only copies the textual content 
> > of the nodes.
> > 
> > hth,
> > b.
> 
> Just out of curiosity, and because I'm learning:
> Wouldn't the above copy-of fail to copy any non-element 
> children of the
> root node?  E.g. comments and PI's...
> (He did say "the entire XML document.")

No.  If the comments and PIs (by that I assume you mean processing
instructions) are children of the root or context node, xsl:copy-of will
write them to the result tree.

cheers,
b.

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