XSL & XML comments?

[chris]

Hi,

Is it possible to preserve comments in XSL? I would like to take a XML
document and merge it with another, but comments and text are not
copied, only elements and their values.

Any ideas?


Cheers,
Chris

 

[chris]

Any ideas?

Found this snippet on the web eventually!

<!-- pass unrecognized nodes along unchanged -->
<xsl:template match="node()|@*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

 

[Mike Brown]

Yeah, that code is called the identity transformation, and it comes from the
XSLT spec -- the section titled "copying".
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xslt
There's all kinds of interesting stuff in there.

 

[Dean Tiegs]

Is it possible to preserve comments in XSL? I would like to take a
XML document and merge it with another, but comments and text are
not copied, only elements and their values.

<xsl:template select="comment()">
<xsl:copy/>
</xsl:template>