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[xsl] Roundtripability of identity transform


Subject: [xsl] Roundtripability of identity transform
From: andrew welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:32:12 +0100

Can it be assumed that the output of the transform:

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

will be an exact copy of the input XML apart from:

-The output will be minus the doctype
-The output will contain any defaulted elements/attributes
-All entities will be expanded
-The output might be in different encoding (although I'm talking
differences above the byte level here).

Are there any other things to be aware of?


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