khalil_mi@h... wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I need to write an XSL that makes a transformation to an input xml
> such as:
> <tag1>
> <email> test@h... </email>
> </tag1>
> 
>  Such that I have an output:
> 
> <!--
> <properties>
> <email-property key="email" value="test@h..." />
> </properties>
> -->
> 
> I tried the following xsl:
> 
> <xsl:comment>
> 	<xsl:element name="properties">
> 		<xsl:element name=" email-property ">
> 			<xsl:attribute name="key">email</xsl:attribute>
> 				<xsl:attribute name="value">  <xsl:value-of select="//tag1/email"/
>> </xsl:attribute>
> 		</xsl:element>
> 	</xsl:element>
> </xsl:comment>

See <URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-Creating-Comments>, the 
contents of xsl:comment should be text (nodes), not element nodes.
So you need to escape the markup


<xsl:stylesheet
   xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
   version="1.0">

   <xsl:template match="tag1">
     <xsl:copy>
       <xsl:apply-templates/>
     </xsl:copy>
   </xsl:template>

   <xsl:template match="email">
     <xsl:comment>
       <xsl:text>&lt;properties&gt;
&lt;email-properties&gt; key="email" value="</xsl:text>
       <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/>
       <xsl:text>" /&gt;
&lt;/properties&gt;</xsl:text>
     </xsl:comment>
   </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>


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