Thanks, Wendell for sharing this perspective. I overlooked this aspect.

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 08:52 AM 8/30/2008, it was written:
>>
>> > In my XSLT,
>> > <xsl:template match="comment()"><xsl:apply-templates/></xsl:template>
>>
>> You have defined this template (to match comments). But this template
>> is probably not getting called, with the right context. Please make
>> sure, this template is invoked in the processing chain.
>
> No, it's worse than that.
>
> Comments have no child nodes to process, so apply-templates in the context
> of a comment is a no-op.
>
> What the OP wants is <xsl:value-of select="."/> (to write out the string
> value of the comment) or <xsl:copy-of select="."/> (to copy the comment).
>
> Cheers,
> Wendell
>
>
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