copy-of select="."
File: Data.xml <employeeData> <employee fileLoc="2.xml"/> <employee fileLoc="3.xml"/> <employee fileLoc="1.xml"/> </employeeData> File: Transform.xslt <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" /> <xsl:template match="/"> <employeeData> <title>Master Employee Data File</title> <xsl:for-each select="employeeData/employee"> <xsl:apply-templates/> </xsl:for-each> </employeeData> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="employee"> <xsl:copy-of select="." /> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> Output: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <employeeData> <title>Master Employee Data File</title> </employeeData>