RE: [xsl] Commenting selected elements (parents) and keeping the child elements with attributes/restoring parents elements somewhere else

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You're constructing a result tree, and in the tree model of XML, comments
can't contain elements, they can only contain text. So your only option is
to contruct a comment that contains text that looks (to an untrained
observer) like an element. That is, you need to serialize the elements by
hand - which you could perhaps do using saxon:serialize().

Another option, which only works if you know that the output of your
stylesheet is being serialized, is to generate the comment delimiters <!--
and --> as text using disable-output-escaping or character maps; you can
then generate the elements as real elements.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pankaj Chaturvedi [mailto:pankaj.chaturvedi@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 09 May 2008 09:01
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] Commenting selected elements (parents) and 
> keeping the child elements with attributes/restoring parents 
> elements somewhere else
> 
> 
> 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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