Re: [xsl] Re: copy top-level comments

["Rob Lugt" <roblugt at elcel dot com>]

Dimitre Novatchev wrote:
>
> > I want to copy comments from the input to the output.
> > I try to get each command in a new Line as it is in the input document.
> > <xsl:output method="xml" inden="yes"> works for the most comments, but
not for the
> > top.Level comments.
>
> Using MSXML I cannot reproduce the problem:
>
> source xml:
> -----------
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> <!--comment1 -->
> <!--comment2 -->
> <doc>
> <!-- comment1 ok -->
> <!-- comment2 ok -->
> </doc>
>

I'm afraid this looks like a non-conformance issue with MSXML.  The space
between the comments in the root node is not XML character data, and
therefore I don't think it should be presented to the XSLT processor as
such.

However, it is possible to achieve what Bernward wanted with a modified
stylesheet:-

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
    <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>

    <xsl:template match="/comment()">
        <xsl:text>&#10;</xsl:text> <!-- force a linefeed before each
top-level comment -->
        <xsl:copy/>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="comment()">
        <xsl:copy/>
    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Regards,
Rob

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Rob Lugt
ElCel Technology
http://www.elcel.com




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