If template 1 doesn't produce any output that's because it's not being
invoked. Where is the apply-templates call that selects a node that it would
match?

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Garvin Riensche [mailto:g.riensche@xxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 24 March 2009 22:14
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  copy attribute question
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am wondering why the context seems to be different in the 
> following templates because I thought the output would be the same.
> 
> Input:
> <a id="1"/>
> 
> Template 1:
> <xsl:template match="a/@*">
>    <aa>
>      <xsl:copy/>
>    </aa>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> Template 2:
> <xsl:template match="a">
>    <xsl:for-each select="@*">
>      <aa>
>        <xsl:copy/>
>      </aa>
>    </xsl:for-each>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> Template 1 doesn't produce any output and template 2 outputs:
> <aa id="1"/>
> 
> Why doesn't Template 1 copy the attribute node to element 
> <aa> like template 2?
> 
> 
> regards,
> Garvin