> but I kind of developed the habit to add things like the 
> following to my stylesheets:

but why? Apart from having it moan at you that * and node() conflict,
you could just get rid of the first template and have (as they have in
the xslt rec)


<xsl:template match="@*|node()"">
   <xsl:copy>
     <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()" />
   </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>


David

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