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RE: comments
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] comments
- From: Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 13:55:23 -0400
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Kevin,
To add to what Mike says: it isn't hard to write a couple of templates
based on the identity transform, that will match elements and attributes,
and write out text that looks just like markup. Put them in a separate mode
so they are not invoked during normal traversal. These templates can be
called inside your <xsl:comment> instruction, and will give you what you want.
Addressing a different question, I actually posted code that does this back
in June. Check out the archives,
http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200106/msg01293.html.
Good luck,
Wendell
At 04:38 AM 9/20/01, Mike wrote:
> > I want to insert XSL:Elements inside XSL:Comments. I am
> > getting an error
> > when trying to do this.
> > Not sure why this isn't acceptable.
>
>XML comments can include angle brackets as ordinary characters. You can use
>them for things that look like markup, e.g.
>
><!-- <br/> -->
>
>but they aren't really markup, because you can also write
>
><!--<<<<>>>> <br was here/> <<<<>>>>-->
>
>which clearly wouldn't parse as an "element within a comment".
>
>So if you want to generate anagle brackets inside a comment, you need to
>generate them as ordinary charaters, not as serialized element nodes.
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