Microsoft’s XSLT template on Visual Studio has something like:
<xsl:template match="@* | node()">
What is @*?
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@*is short forattribute::*and selects all attributes of the context node (or, in an XSLT match pattern, it’s more appropriate to say that it matches all attributes). From the XPath spec: