Webmaster in a Nutshell, Third Edition

Name

<xsl:copy>

Synopsis

This element copies the current node from the source document into the output document. This copies the node itself, as well as any namespace nodes the node possesses. However, it does not copy the node’s content or attributes.

The &use-attribute-sets; attribute contains a whitespace-separated list with names of <xsl:attribute-set> elements. These attribute sets are merged, and all attributes in the merged set are added to the copied element. The &use-attribute-sets; attribute can only be used when the node copied is an element node.

<xsl:copy
   [use-attribute-sets="list"]>
   ...
</xsl:copy>