There is no such thing in the data model as "a commented element" -
comment nodes can contain only text, they cannot contain other nodes as
children. The things that look like start and end tags in your example
are not tags at all, they are ordinary characters.
You could try using saxon:serialize() to simulate this effect.
Michael Kay
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[mailto:owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com] On Behalf Of
Steve Schwarz
Sent: 12 June 2003 04:02
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Subject: [xsl] Inserting commented elements into output file
Hi
I've been scratching my head on this and can't figure out a
solution. I have
some XML documents that I'm converting to HTML and I am
putting the same
boilerplate RDF content into every file. I can get the RDF
content into the
html file but I can't figure out how to wrap the RDF content
with a comment
to make it acceptable by old browsers.
A boiled down version of my stylesheet:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="html" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<html><head>
<title>test</title>
<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">
<Work rdf:about="">
<license
rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0
/" /> </Work> <License
rdf:about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0/">
<requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Attribution" />
<requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/ShareAlike" />
<permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction" />
<permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution" />
<permits
rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks" />
<prohibits
rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/CommercialUse" />
<requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Notice"
/> </License> </rdf:RDF> </head> <body></body> </html>
</xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>
which produces:
<html>
<head>
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=UTF-8"> <title>test</title> <rdf:RDF
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">
<Work rdf:about="">
<license
rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0
/"></license>
</Work>
<License
rdf:about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0/">
<requires
rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Attribution"></requires>
<requires
rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/ShareAlike"></requires>
<permits
rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction"></permits>
<permits
rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution"></permits>
<permits
rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks"></permits>
<prohibits
rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/CommercialUse"></prohibits>
<requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Notice"></requires>
</License>
</rdf:RDF>
</head>
<body></body>
</html>
But I'd like to produce the following (where the rdf:RDF element is
surrounded by comments):
<html>
<head>
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=UTF-8"> <title>test</title>
<!--
<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">
<Work rdf:about="">
<license
rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0
/"></license>
</Work>
<License
rdf:about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0/">
<requires
rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Attribution"></requires>
<requires
rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/ShareAlike"></requires>
<permits
rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction"></permits>
<permits
rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution"></permits>
<permits
rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks"></permits>
<prohibits
rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/CommercialUse"></prohibits>
<requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Notice"></requires>
</License>
</rdf:RDF>
-->
</head>
<body></body>
</html>
I've tried wrapping the <rdf> element with <xsl:comment> but
Xalan doesn't
like that; I've tried building the comments from <xsl:text> and
<xsl:value-of select... with concat> but I can't find a
syntax that is
acceptable. I sure this must be trivial and I'm just not getting it.
Thank you for any assistance,
Steve Schwarz
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