Re: [xsl] Transforming a small part of a document and copying the rest

[JBryant@xxxxxxxxx]

Check out Dave Pawson's XSLT FAQ, where you'll find this question answered 
in detail. The page for identity transforms is at 
http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/identity.html

The simplest way to do what you want is to use an identity transform for 
most nodes and specific templates for the few that you want to transform.

Given an XML document with 100 different elements (say element00 to 
element99) and a need to transform only element00 while preserving the 
rest, you'd have a stylesheet like this one:

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

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

  <xsl:template match="element00">
    <!-- Do your transformation for element00 here -->
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

HTH

Jay Bryant
Bryant Communication Services
(presently consulting at Synergistic Solution Technologies)