[xsl] deep "copy-of" a source fragment

[Terence Kearns <terencek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone, I just joined this list so "greetings". I joined because 
even after reading the entire 
http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/N1930.html page on copying, and 
reading the reference on xsl:copy and xsl:copy-of I am still vexed by an 
annoying problem. I'm using XALAN through the ColdFusion MX 
implementation of their xmlTransform() function. I'm not sure exactly 
which version of Xalan that is.

I'm trying to deep copy [the _content_ of] an xhtml body element. I have 
users who enter arbitary HTML which I then pass through HTML TIDY which 
produces a nice well-formed XHTML document for me. I want to extract the 
body and store the content only.

With my existing attempts, I either get a concatenated string of all the 
leaf text-nodes, or I get the whole entire file.

Here's what's stange, if I do a

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>

    <xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:copy-of select="node()"/>
    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

I get the entire source tree copied to result tree.

*This is to be expectd*

but if I change

	match="/"

to

	match="/html/body"

then I get leaf nodes again :(
I also tried

match="/html/body/"
match="/html/body/*"
match="/html/body/@*|node()"
match="/html/body/node()"

no dice... I either get leaf text nodes or the whole entire file.

makes no difference if I change

	select="node()"

to

	select="."

or

	select="@*|node()"


Is there no way at all to copy a fragment from the source tree onto the 
result tree?!

I've also tried a boatload of other things... too many to list...

I know I can do this using a regular expression instead, but that's not 
the point, I _should_ be able to do it easily with XSLT.


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