[xsl] transformation does happen after copy-of?

I have an well-formed html file that i need to do a transformation to. The html file is pretty much finished, except for some elements I named <whitespace/>

I am trying to run the html file through a transformation that will return the html file with the <whitespace/> elements transformed to something else. I included an example html file and my xsl file. I can invoke the transformation, but the html file remains unchanged.

I think I must be close... can someone point out what I am doing wrong?
Thank you!!!

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<html>
<head>
<title>Test>/title>
</head>
<body>
(snip)
<!-- whitespace elements can be at even depth of the document,
in the body (of course), but in td,p, etc elements -->
<whitespace lines="8" inches="1.25"></whitespace>
(snip)
</body>
</html>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; version="1.0">

   <xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:apply-templates/>
   </xsl:template>

   <xsl:template match="html">
        <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
        <xsl:apply-templates/>
   </xsl:template>

<!-- since whitespace elements can be anywhere in the hierarchy, we need
to do the // -->
   <xsl:template match="//whitespace[lines]">
        <p/>
        <p/>
   </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

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