"KW" <kevinw@a...> wrote in message 
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> If I have an xml snippet like...
>
> <mytag>
>  <h1>A Title Here</h1>
>  <p>A paragraph here</p>
>  <myothertag someatt="something">
>    <more tags />
>  </myothertag>
>  <p>A final paragraph</p>
> </mytag>
>
> which contains both XHTML and some custom XML tags, how can I have my
> XSL stylesheet process the XHTML tags using a <copy-of> approach
> (simply outputting the markup as is) and also process the custom XML
> tags using a <apply-templates> approach, all while maintaining the
> order of the items in the result tree?
>
> I know I could write templates for every possible HTML tag along with
> templates for my custom XML tags, but that seems like more work than
> necessary. The idea is that I want to be able to combine XHTML and
> custom tags within a specific element, but only really override the
> processing for the custom XML tags.
>
> Is this even possible?

Yes, and it is very easy :o)

Do read about "identity template" or "identity transformation".

Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev