Thanks Brian.  It's nice to know I understand something of this, anyway :)

By the way, I should add, just to let you all know, that I'll reference the
group in the references section of my submission.  Copies will be available
(from me) on request - in case anyone wants to know the kinds of questions
students are being tortured with.

Cheers

Peter

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Bryan Rasmussen [mailto:bry@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent:	08 November 2004 14:22
To:	xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:	RE:  Conditional extraction of data


--
Bryan Rasmussen
yes <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/> copies all the attributes.

Quoting "Bradley, Peter" <PBradley@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> Hi Bryan,
>
> Hmm.  That's a fair bit to take in.  I'll have to think about that tonight
to
> understand what's going on there.  I'd completely missed that xsl:copy
copied
> just the node and not its children.  Looking again its explanation at w3c
> schools I begin to understand.
>
> Am I right in thinking that the:
>
> <xsl:copy><xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
> <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </xsl:copy>
>
> copies all the attributes?  I'm not actually interested in attributes at
this
> point, just content, but I think I see where you're coming from.
>
> Thanks to both you and David.  At least I have some stuff to try now -
> whereas I was fresh out of ideas as midnight approached last night.
>
> As I said to David, I'll try to remember to let you know how I get on
>
> Thanks
>
> Peter
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	Bryan Rasmussen [mailto:bry@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	08 November 2004 14:03
> To:	xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:	Re:  Conditional extraction of data
>
>
> --
> Bryan Rasmussen
>
>
>
> > <xsl:copy><xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
> > <xsl:apply-templates/>
> > </xsl:copy>
>
> I always prefer this way of copying, generally using a mode, on particular
> namespaces or all elements. so
>
> <xsl:template match="*" mode="copier">
> <xsl:copy><xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
> <xsl:apply-templates mode="copier"/>
> </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
> <xsl:template match="tag2" mode="copier">
> <i><xsl:apply-templates/></i>
> </xsl:template>
> <xsl:template math="anElement">
> <xsl:apply-templates mode="copier"/>
> </xsl:template>
>
> so that everything gets copied with the copier mode, but tag2 doesn't and
> it
> escapes the mode. This is just a personal preference though.