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

As someone else pointed out, the problem is that it's an error to create
element nodes that are children of a comment node. Can't think of any
suitable circumvention.

Mike Kay
Software AG

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Monte Kalisch [mailto:MonteK@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 01 June 2001 15:58
> To: 'Michael Kay '; 'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx '
> Subject: RE:  XSL to put node (and kids) into a comment
>
>
>
> No problem.  I've attached all three.
>
> Keep in mind that the input.txt file is truly an XML document (SMIL
> actually), but I'm using ASP to scan the document for a
> particular node and
> its children and sending only that node to the XSL for transformation.
>
> I'm manually putting in the HTML headers and footers, as well
> as the form,
> since they aren't there in the beginning.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Kay
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: 6/1/01 9:23 AM
> Subject: RE:  XSL to put node (and kids) into a comment
>
> Your XSLT looks OK to me, perhaps the error is elsewhere? Can you show
> us a
> complete input, stylesheet, and output?
>
> Mike Kay
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
> > Monte Kalisch
> > Sent: 01 June 2001 14:04
> > To: 'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> > Subject:  XSL to put node (and kids) into a comment
> >
> >
> > 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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