Re: What's wrong with this copy-of?

> All I wanted is to see the XML foo node commented in the HTML, what i'm
> doing wrong?

the XPath data model (and thus XSLT) takes the view that comments
comment _text_ not nodes.

So while 
<!--  <xx>...</xx> -->
might look like a commented xx element node it is not, which is
important as you also need to be able to do
<!--  <xx>...<\xx> -->
and comment out incorrect markup: that <xx> doesn't mark the start of a
node.

So, in your stylesheet you need to apply templates that create the text
representation of the element nodes, usually something like

<xsl:apply-templates mode="verbatim" select="/page/foo"/>

various versions of verbatim templates appear in the archives of this
list and faq sites, basically something like

<xsl:template mode="verbatim" select="*">
 <xsl:text>&lt;</xsl:text>
 <xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
 <xsl:text>&gt;</xsl:text>
 <xsl:apply-templates mode="verbatim"/>
 <xsl:text>&lt;/</xsl:text>
 <xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
 <xsl:text>&gt;</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>

plus similar code to handle attributes and empty elements.

David

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