I'm always a bit reticent about discussing product-specific issues on this
list - I like to be helpful to users and I don't mind doing it in public, but
I'm conscious that not everyone on the list is interested. There's a Saxon
specific forum at http://saxonica.plan.io which you are welcome to use.

I can't see any obvious reason for this behaviour. Schema validation per se
shouldn't lose the comments, although it ignores them. How are you invoking
the transformation?

Michael Kay
Saxonica

On 9 Apr 2013, at 16:44, bjoern.duenckel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> With Saxon-EE 9.4.0.6 I can't adress comment nodes.
>
>   Source
>   -----------------------------------------------
>   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>   <r>
>        <!-- This is a comment. -->
>   </r>
>   -----------------------------------------------
>
>   Stylesheet
>   -----------------------------------------------
>   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>   <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>   version="2.0">
>        <xsl:output method="text"/>
>        <xsl:template match="/">
>            <xsl:value-of select="count(//comment())"/>
>        </xsl:template>
>   </xsl:stylesheet>
>   -----------------------------------------------
>
>   Output with Saxon-EE 9.4.0.6
>   -----------------------------------------------
>   0
>   -----------------------------------------------
>
>   Output with Saxon-PE 9.4.0.6 (and any other Transformer I tried)
>   -----------------------------------------------
>   1
>   -----------------------------------------------
>
>
> Do you agree, that this is a saxon bug?
> Or am I missing something about schema-awareness that would explain this
behavior?
>
> Regards
>
> Bjvrn D|nckel