I'm trying to retain the original attributes from the
figure match and the following code seems to work,
although I haven't seen many instances with two
copy-of's in a row--do you know if this is okay
practice?:

<xsl:template match="figure[./title/indexterm]">
   <xsl:copy>
        <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
        <xsl:copy-of select=".//indexterm"/>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
   </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

It seems preferable than recreating each attribute
(some are custom) with the <attribute> tag.

Cheers,
Wendell

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