XSL - two techniques for making XML available for transformation

copy_xml.xsl

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

	<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xslt="http://xml.apache.org/xslt" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

		<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="yes" encoding="UTF-8" xslt:indent-amount="2" />

		<!-- Technique #1 -->
		<xsl:template match="@*|node()">
			<xsl:copy>
				<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
			</xsl:copy>
		</xsl:template>
	
		<!-- Technique #2 -->
		<xsl:template match="*|@*" >
			<xsl:copy>
				<xsl:apply-templates select="*|text ()|@*" />
			</xsl:copy>
		</xsl:template>

	</xsl:stylesheet>