Thanks Jan, I want to give a summary. It just depends how many you want to copy over.

1. If you only want to copy a few, then disable all default templates and only write the copy templates for those you want to copy.


2. If you want to copy all but exclude a few, then use identity template, and only disable a few templates for those you want not to copy.


3. How to disable some templates? Simple:



4. How to write identity template?



5. What is copy templates?
   
   Attention, this will copy it and its decendents.

data.xml with testdata

     one 
     two 
     three
         four 
         five 
    
     six 



filter.xsl which does the job


  version="1.0"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

  








match="one">
    




    




    












    






    
        
        
        
    





    





    






Test output


 one 

 four  three