Cheers,
Wendell

The test is the same in both cases. The third item in .//* is the <rdg
n="3"> element. The two elements before this are the <q n="1"> element and
the <app n="2"> element, and you have obtained deep copies of these two
elements, just as you requested.

However, this isn't going to help with your problem. Doing xsl:copy-of gives
you a deep copy of all the selected nodes, and therefore xsl:copy-of
select=".//*" is going to contain many duplicated nodes: each element will
be copied once its own right, and once as a side-effect of copying its
parent, once when copying its grandparent, and so on.

This kind of problem becomes much easier with the << and >> operators in
XPath 2.0. Select the first and last nodes you want to process (say A and
B), and then you can process all the required nodes using

select="$A | //*[. >> $A and . << $B] | $B"

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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