RE: How to extract comments only?

[John Greek <John dot Greek at ariba dot com>]

Mike:
Thanks for the very helpful contribution.  However, I'm curious about how to
only extact the comments.  In this example, it extracts the comments AND the
xml tags, how do I get just comments?

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Brown [mailto:mike@skew.org]
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 1:05 PM
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Subject: Re: How to extract comments only?


> I'm still new to XSLT, but have a need to
> extract all comments (however deep) from an
> XML file to another. Output should only
> contain comments and nothing else perhaps
> save the XML declaration (i.e: none
> of the other markup/pcdata).

Sure. Read http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#built-in-rule and then it should be
apparent why this simple stylesheet will (well, should) do what you want:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">

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

<xsl:template match="text()|@*"/>

</xsl:stylesheet>

   - Mike
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