Re: Preceding comment() match

> Currently, this:
> 
> <xsl:value-of select="preceding-sibling::node()[not(self::text()[not(normalize-space())])][1][self::comment()]"/>
> Produces no line breaks.

the line breaks are copied to the html but are by default rendered as
space, you can render then as linebreaks using css or a <pre> element.

Otherwise you need to replace #10 by <br/> using a replace template (the
faq has some examples) or xsl:analyze-string in xslt2

David