Using <xsl:copy> and <xsl:copy-of>

As you transform your XML input document into something else, you’ll often want to just copy a given element to the output document. XSLT provides two elements that do this: <xsl:copy> and <xsl:copy-of>. We’ll discuss them here and go through several stylesheets that use these elements to create output.

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