XML & XSL - xsl:comment

Creates a comment into the browser output.

Syntax

<xsl:comment>

Attributes

• name - the name of the attribute to create.

Parent Elements

• xsl:copy
• xsl:element
• xsl:for-each
• xsl:if
• xsl:otherwise
• xsl:template
• xsl:when
• output elements

Child Elements

• xsl:apply-templates
• xsl:choose
• xsl:copy
• xsl:eval
• xsl:for-each
• xsl:if
• xsl:value-of

Purpose

Any text generated by the children of xsl:comment appears between the HTML comment characters <!-- and -->, opening and closing commented section respectively. The example below will write the INPUT tag to the HTML enclosed within comments. Thus the INPUT tag will not appear in the browser.

<xsl:comment>
	<xsl:element name="INPUT">
		<xsl:attribute name="VALUE"><xsl:value-of select="name"/></xsl:attribute>
		<xsl:attribute name="SIZE">35</xsl:attribute>
	</xsl:element>
</xsl:comment>

HTML Equivalent

<!-- <INPUT VALUE="name" SIZE="35"> -->