RE: (de)serialize between comments and node-sets

"Andrew Welch" <AWelch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>>   This morning, I just realized that I need to transform an element
>into a
>> comment in script A and then reverse that in script B. For example,
>
>[snip]
>
>> Is there an easier way?
>
>Yes, don't wrap the markup in a comment!  Remember markup is meant to
>mean something, so if you want to state that some part of the xml should
>be ignored use something like:
>
><ignore>
>  <foo>
>    <bar/>
>  </foo>
></ignore>
>
>This way you can do what you wish using a template to match <ignore> -
>treat it as a comment, treat it as markup its up to you...
>
>If you actually want to write a comment in xml, use <!-- -->, if you
>really mean anything else at all, use markup.
>
>cheers
>andrew

Unfortunately, I don't have that choice. Briefly, remember that I mentioned that work is done on the result from script A. This is done by a Java programs (not own by us) that 'swallowed' the <foo> because it is not 'recognized'. I don't want to go into details about this since I can't change that.

The only thing I can change to either make

<foo>
  <bar/>
<foo>

into a comment or a CDATA section like

<recognized_tag>
  <![CDATA[
<foo>
  <bar/>
<foo>
  ]]>
</recognized_tag>

Any other ideas?

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