Re: [2.4.2] : Element Nodes - Original Markup Preservation

[James Clark <jjc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Tony Graham wrote:
> 
> At 9 Sep 1998 20:26 -0400, G. Ken Holman wrote:
>  > Is the XSL group considering including features in the specification to
>  > support the preservation of source document markup in an result document?
> 
> In section 2.7.2, Overview:
> 
>    Issue (identity-transform): There needs to be a way to do the
>    identity transformation (creating a result tree identical to the
>    source tree). How should this be done?

But it says "tree" not "document".  If the source markup isn't in the
tree, then supporting the identity transformation doesn't mean that the
source markup will be preserved.

My guess is that you'll be able to preserve PIs and comments but not
entity references or character references.  In the current version of
XT, you can use the following to do the identity transformation:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl";>

<xsl:template match="*|comment()|pi(*)">
  <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:process-children/>
  </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

James



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