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4/8/2010
Generates a comment in the output.
Syntax
<xsl:comment> </xsl:comment> |
Attributes
None.
Element Information
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Number of occurrences |
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Parent elements |
xsl:copy, xsl:element, xsl:for-each, xsl:if, xsl:otherwise, xsl:param, xsl:template, xsl:variable, xsl:when, xsl:with-param, output elements |
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Child elements |
xsl:apply-templates, xsl:call-template, xsl:choose, xsl:copy, xsl:copy-of, xsl:for-each, xsl:if, xsl:text, xsl:value-of, xsl:variable |
Remarks
The text generated by the children of <xsl:comment> appears between the starting characters <!-- and the closing characters -->.
Example
In the following example, the news.xsl stylesheet transforms the news.xml document and inserts a comment into the XSLT output.
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news.xml <?xml version ="1.0"?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="comment1.xsl"?> <news> <story1>Here is the top news story.</story1> <story2>News is the next news story.</story2> </news> news.xsl <?xml version='1.0'?> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"> <xsl:template match="/"> <HTML> <BODY> <xsl:comment>insert top news story</xsl:comment> <P> <xsl:value-of select="//story1"/> </P> </BODY> </HTML> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> XSLT Output <HTML> <BODY> <!--insert top news story--> <P>Here is the top news story.</P> </BODY> </HTML> |
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