You probably intended this for the Xalan (XSLT processor) user list rather
than the Xerces (XML parser) list.
Short answer: This is an XSLT FAQ. To match a namespaced element -- whether
the source document uses the default namespace or not -- you must use a
properly-declared namespace prefix in your XPath. There is a proposal to
add the default shorthand to XPath 2.0, but until that comes along you're
stuck. Rewrite your template as
<xsl:template match="foo:Message" xmlns:foo="
http://www.dot.com/xmlstds/request";>
<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>
(Of course you can declare the prefix at a higher level, eg on the
stylesheet element, if you prefer; since you'll usually want to use it in
multiple templates that's generally the preferred solution.)
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Joe Kesselman, IBM Next-Generation Web Technologies: XML, XSL and more.
"The world changed profoundly and unpredictably the day Tim Berners Lee
got bitten by a radioactive spider." -- Rafe Culpin, in r.m.filk
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