At 2003-09-03 11:49 -0700, Julie Holloway wrote:
the comments are removed. I am
wondering if there is a better way to keep the
comments.
<xsl:copy/> ... an example is below that preserves comments and text
nodes but nothing else.
I hope this helps.
................ Ken
T:\ftemp>type julie.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<doc>
<test>
<!--first comment-->
</test>
<!--second comment-->
</doc>
T:\ftemp>type julie.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
version="1.0">
<xsl:template match="comment()">
<xsl:copy/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
T:\ftemp>saxon julie.xml julie.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!--first comment-->
<!--second comment-->
T:\ftemp>
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