Subject: RE: [xsl] limitations of xsl:comment From: "Stuart Celarier" <stuart@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 19:15:39 -0700 |
A comment in XML consists of character data, see the XML specification, 2.5, Comments, http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#dt-comment, for details. Comments have no children, they are straight text. When you place what _looks_ like XML markup in you comment, it is still just text, so the comment <!-- <Tag> </Tag> --> does not include a Tag element as a child, just a bunch of characters happen to resemble markup. Check out the sample comment in the XML specification (link above) and notice that its contents are not well-formed XML. I am not sure I understand what your second question is getting at regarding comments and CDATA sections. This may help. Comments are not part of the data expressed by an XML document. In fact XML parsers are free to drop comments when constructing a DOM from an XML document. OTOH, a CDATA section indicates that the enclosed characters are to be interpreted literally, and not to be construed as markup. In the case of both a comment and a CDATA section, the contents are not taken as part of the markup. However, the contents of a CDATA section are part of the text data of the document, while the contents of a comment are not part of the data of the document. Cheers, Stuart XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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