Hi Mila,
You can use comment() to match comment nodes in your XML document.
For instance the following stylesheet will copy the comments inside
Alias_Records inside the comments element in the output. Each comment
will be followed by the following sibling node if that is a text (in
order to get the new lines following the comment nodes in the output as
well):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<comments>
<xsl:apply-templates select="Alias_Records/comment()"/>
</comments>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="comment()">
<xsl:copy/>
<xsl:copy-of select="following-sibling::node()[1][self::text()]"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<comments><!-- ********************************************************* -->
<!-- Local SITE ID : xxx -->
<!-- Local Release Version: lny0211i -->
<!-- NASD/NADR Version : 31n0211r -->
<!-- Date : 09-02-2004 12:10:39 -->
<!-- *********************************************************- -->
</comments>
Hope that helps,
George
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George Cristian Bina
<oXygen/> XML Editor & XSLT Editor/Debugger
http://www.oxygenxml.com
Mila P. Mitra wrote:
Hello,
First of all let me thank all the people who run this list and answer
questions frequently for a great job.
Here is my question. Is there a way to use a stylesheet to extract a comment
block as is and take it across to a new xml file?
The example below shows the 4 lines of comments within the ***** lines,
which I want also printed in the new XML file exactly the way it is:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Alias_Records xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="Alias.xsd">
<!-- ********************************************************* -->
<!-- Local SITE ID : xxx -->
<!-- Local Release Version: lny0211i -->
<!-- NASD/NADR Version : 31n0211r -->
<!-- Date : 09-02-2004 12:10:39 -->
<!-- *********************************************************- -->
<FixAlias>
<AliasAlphanumerics>SCB</AliasAlphanumerics>
<FixName>KSCB</FixName>
</FixAlias>
<AirportAlias>
<AliasAlphanumerics>YYZ</AliasAlphanumerics>
<AirportID>VYZX</AirportID>
</AirportAlias>
</Alias_Records>
Thanks in advance,
Mila Mitra
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Mila (Patralekha) Mitra
pmitra(_at_)mail(_dot_)arc(_dot_)nasa(_dot_)gov
NASA Ames, CA
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