xsl:comment Element (Compact 2013)
3/26/2014
Generates a comment in the output.
Syntax
<xsl:comment>
</xsl:comment>
Attributes
None.
Element Information
Number of occurrences |
Unlimited |
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 |
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.
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>