The Default Template Rule for Comment and Processing Instruction Nodes

This is the default template rule for comments and processing instructions:

<xsl:template match="processing-instruction( )|comment( )"/>

It matches all comments and processing instructions. However, it does not output anything into the result tree. That is, unless a stylesheet provides specific rules matching comments or processing instructions, no part of these items will be copied from the input document to the output document.

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