Name

<xsl:comment> — Allows you to create a comment in the output document. Comments are sometimes used to add legal notices, disclaimers, or information about when the output document was created. Another useful application of the <xsl:comment> element is the generation of CSS definitions or JavaScript code in an HTML document.

Category

Instruction

Required Attributes

None.

Optional Attributes

None.

Content

An XSLT template.

Appears in

<xsl:comment> appears in a template.

Defined in

XSLT section 7.4, Creating Comments.

Example

Here’s a stylesheet that generates a comment to define CSS styles in an HTML document:

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

  <xsl:output method="html"/>

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <html>
      <head>
        <title>XSLT and CSS Demo</title>
        <style>
          <xsl:comment> 
            p.big      {font-size: 125%; font-weight: bold} 
            p.green    {color: green; font-weight: bold}
            p.red      {color: red; font-style: italic}
          </xsl:comment>
        </style>
      </head>
      <body>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="list/title"/>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="list/listitem"/>
      </body>
    </html>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="title">
    <p class="big"><xsl:value-of select="."/></p>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="listitem">
    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="position() mod 2">
        <p class="green"><xsl:value-of select="."/></p>
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:otherwise>
        <p class="red"><xsl:value-of select="."/></p>
      </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
  </xsl:template>
  
</xsl:stylesheet>

This stylesheet creates three ...

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