Re: [xsl] Newbie wants comments too . . .

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Frank,

Comments are ordinarily not copied because they are matched by a 
built-in template that discards them:

<xsl:template match="comment()"/>

To override this, simply write a template of your own that copies them:

<xsl:template match="comment()">
  <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>

You could also tighten your code as follows:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>

<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
<!-- indent 'yes' asks your serializer to indent so you don't have to -->

<xsl:preserve-space elements="*"/>

<xsl:template match="AsiaInfoDb">
  <aitags>
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </aitags>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="AsiaInfoDb/*">
  <aitag id="{name()}">
    <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
    <xsl:value-of select="."/>
  </aitag>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

This isn't much different (and it should create the same output), but 
you'll find this approach scales better to more complex sorts of problems.

Enjoy --
Wendell


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