Stripping comments and processing instructions from Jeni Tennison on 2002-01-15 (xsl-editors@w3.org from January to March 2002)

From: Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 13:04:44 +0000
To: xsl-editors@w3.org
Message-ID: <126707227769.20020115130444@jenitennison.com>

Hi,

The Data Model WD describes three flags that can be set when creating
a node tree: ignore-whitespace, ignore-comments and
ignore-processing-instructions.

The first flag is managed (presumably) through xsl:strip-space and
xsl:preserve-space. Shouldn't there be similar XSLT declarations for
stripping and preserving comments and processing instructions?

(It might be helpful if the processing instruction one used the name
of a processing instruction to work out whether to strip it or not as
well as or instead of the identity of the parent element.)

Cheers,

Jeni
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Jeni Tennison
http://www.jenitennison.com/

Received on Tuesday, 15 January 2002 08:04:46 UTC