Re: Extracting a comment block

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Subject: Re: Extracting a comment block
From: George Cristian Bina <george@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 00:54:10 +0300

Hi Mila,

You can use comment() to match comment nodes in your XML document. For instance the following stylesheet will copy the comments inside Alias_Records inside the comments element in the output. Each comment will be followed by the following sibling node if that is a text (in order to get the new lines following the comment nodes in the output as well):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:template match="/"> <comments> <xsl:apply-templates select="Alias_Records/comment()"/> </comments> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="comment()"> <xsl:copy/> <xsl:copy-of select="following-sibling::node()[1][self::text()]"/> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<comments><!-- ********************************************************* -->
 <!-- Local SITE ID        : xxx                               -->
 <!-- Local Release Version: lny0211i                          -->
 <!-- NASD/NADR Version    : 31n0211r                          -->
 <!-- Date                 : 09-02-2004 12:10:39               -->
 <!-- *********************************************************- -->
     </comments>

Hope that helps,
George
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George Cristian Bina
<oXygen/> XML Editor & XSLT Editor/Debugger
http://www.oxygenxml.com

Mila P. Mitra wrote:

Hello,
  First of all let me thank all the people who run this list and answer
questions frequently for a great job.

Here is my question. Is there a way to use a stylesheet to extract a comment
block as is and take it across to a new xml file?

The example below shows the 4 lines of comments within the ***** lines,
which I want also printed in the new XML file exactly the way it is:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Alias_Records xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="Alias.xsd">
 <!-- ********************************************************* -->
 <!-- Local SITE ID        : xxx                               -->
 <!-- Local Release Version: lny0211i                          -->
 <!-- NASD/NADR Version    : 31n0211r                          -->
 <!-- Date                 : 09-02-2004 12:10:39               -->
 <!-- *********************************************************- -->
     <FixAlias>
       <AliasAlphanumerics>SCB</AliasAlphanumerics>
       <FixName>KSCB</FixName>
     </FixAlias>
     <AirportAlias>
       <AliasAlphanumerics>YYZ</AliasAlphanumerics>
       <AirportID>VYZX</AirportID>
     </AirportAlias>
</Alias_Records>

Thanks in advance,
Mila Mitra

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Mila (Patralekha) Mitra
pmitra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
NASA Ames, CA


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