RE: Stripping comments and processing instructions

Thanks for the comment. I think the extra flags in the data model were put
there largely to satisfy the rule that processing instructions and comments
are ignored in a stylesheet; I don't think there has been any pressure to
allow these flags to be set for source documents, though I'm sure someone
would find a use for it. I hope we can avoid adding too much complexity in
this area as the whitespace stripping rules already create enough problems!

Mike Kay

> 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
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