June 2008
Intermediate to advanced
986 pages
27h 8m
English
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Name
<xsl:comment>
Allows you to create a comment in the output document.
Comments are sometimes used to add legal notices, disclaimers, or
information about when the output document was created. Another useful
application of the <xsl:comment> element is generating
CSS definitions or JavaScript code in an HTML document.
Category
Instruction.
Required Attributes
None.
Optional Attribute
- [2.0]
select An XPath expression that generates content for the comment. If this attribute is not present, the contents of the
<xsl:comment>element are used instead. If theselectattribute is not present and the<xsl:comment>element is empty, an empty comment is generated. It is a fatal error for an<xsl:comment>element to have aselectattribute and contain content.
Content
A [1.0] node-set or [2.0] sequence constructor.
Appears in
<xsl:comment> appears
in a template.
Defined in
[1.0] XSLT section 7.4, “Creating Comments.”
[2.0] XSLT section 11.8, “Creating Comments.”
Example
Here’s a stylesheet that generates a comment to define CSS styles in an HTML document:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <!-- comment.xsl --> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output method="html"/> <xsl:template match="/"> <html> <head> <title>XSLT and CSS Demo</title> <style> <xsl:comment> p.big {font-size: 125%; font-weight: bold;} p.odd {color: purple; font-weight: bold;} p.even {color: blue; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;} </xsl:comment> </style> </head> <body style="font-family: ...
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