Copy the current context node only, does not copy any child nodes or attribute nodes (namespace 'nodes' are copied).
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:template name="test"> <xsl:copy> ... </xsl:copy> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>
Use the following to copy everything from the input document to the resulting document:
<xsl:template match="node()|@*"> <xsl:copy><xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/></xsl:copy> </xsl:template>