Re: copying tags with attributes

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 99/11/24 02:14 +0200, Guy Pirostsky wrote:
> How can I copy all tag with attributes?
>
> for example I have the following Tag in XML file
> <form name="queryForm" action="test.xml" method="post" target="results">
>  <tag1/>
>  <tag2/>
> </form>
>
> is there is easy way to preserve the <form> tag with attributes but process
> all tags inside it?

Often you need to do this for more than one element type.  The following is 
a short way of saying "copy the element and all attributes for a bunch of 
element types named "form", "this", "that" and "other":

<xsl:template match="form|this|that|other">
  <xsl:copy><!--copy node being visited-->
    <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/><!--copy of all attributes-->
    <xsl:apply-templates/><!--process the children-->
  </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

I hope this helps.

........ Ken

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