Thanks!! That solves the problem

and now I'm beginning to better understand the mechanisms of namespaces

The solution suggested by Josh Canfield also works
('manual copy' to an <xsl:element name="{local-name()}">)
in fact I had already implemented this as a workaround, and
it even works with {name()} instead of {local-name()}
(I guess because the xhtml namespace prefix in the stylesheet
is empty, anyway)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Carlisle" <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 11:18 AM
Subject: Re:  Problem copying xhtml elements from xml source


> 
> If you can control your input you would be better to fix your input so
> it uses XHTML not elements in no-namespace that have the same local
> names as XHTML elements, so use
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="test-copy-of.xsl"?>
> <test-copy-of>
>   <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
>   <p style="color:red;">a paragraph in <b>red</b></p>
>   <p><img src="wood102.jpg" width="149" height="177" alt="wood"/></p>
>   </div>
> </test-copy-of>
> 
> then your copy-of will work and everything will be fine.
> 
> Otherwise you need to change the namespace of every element, to XSLT
> this is changing the name, like changing <a> to <b> so  you can do it,
> but not with xsl:copy-of or xsl:copy.
> 
> David
> 
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