Commenting selected elements (parents) and keeping the

Hello all,

Is there is a way to commenting some specific elements mostly parents while
retaining the child elements in output. I know I am sounding bit stupid as
far as the hierarchy of xml is concerns, but I need to restore the
parents/grand parents (instead omitting them) along with their attribute
values.


As of now I am trying the following, but its omit them.



	<xsl:template match="root">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:attribute name="dummy">the_root</xsl:attribute>
			<xsl:apply-templates/>
			<xsl:apply-templates select=".//aaa"/>
	</xsl:copy>
	</xsl:template>


	<xsl:template match="root//aaa">
      <xsl:copy>
		<xsl:attribute name="dummy">xxx</xsl:attribute>
			<xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
			<xsl:apply-templates/>
	</xsl:copy>
	</xsl:template>


  <!-- omit these -->

 <xsl:template match="abc | bbb"/>




Input
====
<root>
	<abc id="123">
		<bbb>
			<aaa id="123">xxxxxx</aaa>
		</bbb>
		<abc>
</root>


Output
======

<root>
<!--<abc id="123"><bbb>-->
			<aaa id="123">xxxxxx</aaa>
<!--</bbb>
		<abc>-->

</root>

or may be something like
===================

<root>
			<aaa id="123">xxxxxx</aaa>

	<!--<abc id="123">
<bbb>--><!--</bbb>
<abc>-->

</root>


I've also tried to use the following but takes only text nodes of the <abc>
and <bbb> and "not their markup".

	<xsl:template match="root">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:attribute name="dummy">the_root</xsl:attribute>

			<xsl:apply-templates/>
			<xsl:apply-templates select=".//aaa"/>
			<xsl:comment>
			<xsl:apply-templates select="./abc | .//bbb"/>
			</xsl:comment>
</xsl:copy>
	</xsl:template>



Hope I've made myself clear and any ideas in this regard will be highly
appreciated.


Best,

Pankaj Chaturvedi

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