[xslt] xsltPrecomputerStylesheet and xml:space

[Keith Isdale <k_isdale tpg com au>]

Hi all,

I've been looking at extracting comments from the stylesheet so they can be 
appended to the search results in xsldbg. The the libxslt preprocessor, as 
expected, strips off all comments that it can. If I attatch 
  xml:space="preserve" 
to the top node of the stylesheet, the preprocessor partly does what I had in 
mind. It turns the comments into a text node that only has a line feed 
character.

I relealize that libxslt can not be run with the extra comment preserved. And 
planned to disable executing the stylesheet in xsldbg whilst the comments 
have been preserved. 

Is there a way arround this without a change to libxslt? I understand the 
comments of interest get "flagged" to be stripped at at libxslt/xslt.c : line 
1139

An example of what I mean by comments are
<code>

   <!-- The default stylesheet to process  -->	
   <xsl:variable name="default" select="xsldoc.xsl"/>

    <!-- Format and display file details--> 
   <xsl:template match="file">
	<xsl:text>file:</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="@url" />:
	<xsl:text>line </xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="@line" />
	<xsl:text> default</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="$default" />
  </xsl:template>

</code>
-- 
Keith Isdale

k_isdale@tpg.com.au | xsldbg stylesheet debugger  
http://xsldbg.sourceforge.net