RE: XSL to put node (and kids) into a comment

OK, that makes sense.  Sorry for the, seemingly obvious FAQ/RTFM oversight,
but I'm sorta new to all this and there *is* a lot to read.  ;)

The question, I have then, is surely there's a *way* to do what I want.  Any
suggestions?

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Subject: Re:  XSL to put node (and kids) into a comment


>From the XSLT recommendation:

   http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-Creating-Comments

   "It is an error if instantiating the content of xsl:comment creates
   nodes other than text nodes. An XSLT processor may signal the error;
if
   it does not signal the error, it must recover by ignoring the
offending
   nodes together with their content."

So, I don't believe you can generate xml within a comment by using
xsl:comment.  You don't show the results of running your stylesheet, but
the fragment you posted should produce an empty comment.

Anyone else have an opinion?

Dave



 

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I want to translate some of the incoming XML into HTML, but comment out
certain things that don't make sense in HTML (yet still leave the
original
intact)

For instance, I want this XML:

<input type="group" name="age" min="1"/>

to be transformed into this:

<!--<input type="group" name="age" min="1"/>-->

How would I go about doing this?  I have this XSL already, but it
doesn't
seem to be working properly.  It recognizes the tag in question, but
doesn't

actually include the contents in the transformation:

<xsl:template match="* | text() | @*">
     <xsl:copy>
          <xsl:apply-templates select="@*"/>
          <xsl:apply-templates/>
     </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="input[@type = 'group']">
        <xsl:comment>
                <xsl:apply-templates/>
        </xsl:comment>
</xsl:template>


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