Re: [xsl] commenting an XML element [XSLT 1.0][xsltproc]

[pankaj.c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Works for me now too. Yesterday was not my day. Little bit of tweaking in 
stylesheet and I got the result the way I wanted (as an EMPTY element). 

<!--<colspec colname="col1"/>-->
<!--<colspec colname="col2"/>-->

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; 
version="1.0">

    <!--Identity transform copies all items by default -->
    <xsl:template match="@* | node()">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>

<!--  Comment <colspec> element, which will require during export  -->
    <xsl:template match="colspec">
        <xsl:comment>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="self::*" mode="comment" />
        </xsl:comment>
    </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="*" mode="comment">
        <xsl:value-of select="'&lt;'"/>
            <xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
        <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
          <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()" mode="comment" />
        <xsl:value-of select="'&gt;'"/>
</xsl:template>

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

    <xsl:template match="@*" mode="comment">
        <xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
        <xsl:text>="</xsl:text>
        <xsl:value-of select="."/>
        <xsl:text>"</xsl:text>
        <xsl:text>/</xsl:text>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

But what about <thead valign="top">, which contains child elements and I 
wish to comment *only* <thead>.

<thead valign="top">
<row>
<entry rowsep="1" align="left">Abbreviation</entry>
<entry rowsep="1" align="left">Dosage Interval</entry>
</row>
</thead>

to

<!--  <thead valign="top"> -->
<row>
<entry rowsep="1" align="left">Abbreviation</entry>
<entry rowsep="1" align="left">Dosage Interval</entry>
</row>
 <!--</thead>  -->



   <xsl:template match="thead">
        <xsl:comment>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="comment" />
        </xsl:comment>
    </xsl:template> 


The above code does not seems to be working.

Secondly how about reverting *commented* element using stylesheet. Is 
there a way around.
Can somebody throw some ideas.

Best,
Pankaj