XSL & XML comments?

[Chris (16)]

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 (16)]

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>