Re: xsl:comment problem

On Mar 9, 2007, at 10:09 AM, Peter Van der Beken wrote:

> Thomas Comiotto wrote:
>> <style type="text/css">
>>   <xsl:comment>
>>     @import url("<xsl:value-of select="$aVariable"/>/foo/bar.css");
>>   </xsl:comment>
>> </style>
>> does output:
>>  <style type="text/css">
>>   <!--
>>     @import url("/foo/bar.css");
>>   -->
>>  </style>
>
> Without seeing aVariable it's impossible to know if this is a bug.
>
>> <xsl:comment>
>>   <foo>bar</foo>
>> </xsl:comment>
>> <!--
>> bar
>> -->
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-Creating-Comments:
> "It is an error if instantiating the content of xsl:comment creates  
> nodes other than text nodes. An XSLT processor may signal the  
> error; if it does not signal the error, it must recover by ignoring  
> the offending nodes together with their content."
>

Ok let's get this one straight; in the above example $aVariable  
resolves to some #text, so the given example is perfectly compliant  
with the spec. The xslt processor's not. It does not substitute  
variables when being descendants of xsl:comment directives, whether  
those variables reference #text or not.


I think I'll file a bug.

Thanks,
Thomas