XSLT: deep child copy

Question

My need: I want to deep copy all the childs of a single selected node without actually copying it. Example: from

<father><son i="1" /><son i="2" /><son i="0"><lastNode /></son></father>

i wish to extract

<son i="1" /><son i="2" /><son i="0"><lastNode /></son>

I know that i can do this with a cycle for-each and then a xsl:copy-of. I am wondering if there is a simpler expression to achieve the same result. Some idea?

Follow-up. My question missed a couple of points. I should had said that all the childs means "all the possible childs", including textnodes; another verification that a better question already contains the answer. Second, what I have learned from you - the community - is that I was enough dumb to try to solve by XSL what in facts was more a XPATH issue. Thanks to all of you for this insight

Cheers.

Answer 1

Use e.g. <xsl:copy-of select="father/son"/>

Answer 2

Try select all children..

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"&gt;
<xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:copy-of select="father/*"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

E.G. Given input

<father><son i="1" /><son i="2" /><niceSon /><son i="0"><lastNode /></son></father>

It outputs

<son i="1" /><son i="2" /><niceSon /><son i="0"><lastNode /></son>

Answer 3

<xsl:copy-of select="father/node()" />