As a newbie at XSLT and not a guru of anything I cannot get the identity
transforms below to do anything. My environment is IE6.0, SharePoint (MOSS),
SharePointDesigner, no Visual-anything.

Goal: I have a 3rd party WP that works fine. I replaced ALL of its XSLT with
that from MS FAB40 template which does horiz bar graphs. It worked fine which
gave me the confidence to go ahead and mess with the XSLT to produce other
displays. As a first step I thought I should look at the raw stuff being
generated by the WP so that I could write intelligent XSLT.

I have browsed this forum, Mangamo's "Cookbook", Jen Tennison's book and
tried
6-7 variations on the identity transforms below. All I get is a blank, white
page. I also paste snippet below the first 20-30 lines from the XSLT that
successfully display data.

I have mixed the "match line" and the "apply-template" lines, and tried
"copy-of", etc. etc. etc. What am I doing wrong - this has got to be simple.

Again my goal is to see the raw data from the WP so I can write my own XSLT.

===============identity #1 from this forum (namespace no good)
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl";>
<xsl:template match="*|comment()|pi(*)">
  <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:process-children/>
  </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
=====================end #1

====================identity #2, wwbota xslt transforms lib
 <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
 <xsl:template match="@*|*|processing-instruction()|comment()">
 <xsl:copy>
  <xsl:apply-templates
select="*|@*|text()|processing-instruction()|comment()" />
  </xsl:copy>
  </xsl:template>
  </xsl:stylesheet>
=====================end #2

=========================identity #3 (full namespaces from display that
works)
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" exclude-result-prefixes="xsl msxsl ddwrt"
xmlns:ddwrt="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebParts/v2/DataView/runtime"
xmlns:asp="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ASPNET/20"
xmlns:__designer="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebParts/v2/DataView/designer"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
xmlns:SharePoint="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls"
xmlns:ddwrt2="urn:frontpage:internal">
<xsl:output method="html" indent="no"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:apply-templates
select="*|@*|text()|processing-instruction()|comment()" />
    </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
======================end #3

=======================snippet WP that works
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" exclude-result-prefixes="xsl msxsl ddwrt"
xmlns:ddwrt="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebParts/v2/DataView/runtime"
xmlns:asp="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ASPNET/20"
xmlns:__designer="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebParts/v2/DataView/designer"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
xmlns:SharePoint="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls"
xmlns:ddwrt2="urn:frontpage:internal">
	<xsl:output method="html" indent="no"/>
	<xsl:decimal-format NaN=""/>
	<xsl:param name="dvt_apos">'</xsl:param>
	<xsl:variable name="dvt_1_automode">0</xsl:variable>
	<xsl:template match="/">
		<xsl:call-template name="dvt_1"/>
	</xsl:template>
	  <xsl:template name="dvt_1">
    <xsl:param name="ParentPath"/>
    <xsl:variable name="dvt_StyleName">Table</xsl:variable>
    <xsl:variable name="Rows" select="/dsQueryResponse/Rows/Row"/>
    <xsl:variable name="dvt_RowCount" select="count($Rows)" />
    <xsl:variable name="IsEmpty" select="$dvt_RowCount = 0" />
    <xsl:call-template name="dvt_1.footer">
      <xsl:with-param name="Rows" select="$Rows" />
    </xsl:call-template>
  </xsl:template>
==========================snippet end

Dick Penny