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


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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.