XML/XSLT stylesheet/character map
Use character-map
<source lang="xml">
File: Data.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <artist>
<filename>aidan_oliver</filename>
<work>Innocence</work>
E
</artist>
File: Transform.xslt <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
<!ENTITY start-comment ""> <!ENTITY end-comment "">
]> <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output use-character-maps="comment-delimiters" /> <xsl:character-map name="comment-delimiters"> <xsl:output-character character="&start-comment;" string="<!--" /> <xsl:output-character character="&end-comment;" string="-->" /> </xsl:character-map> <xsl:template match="*"> <xsl:copy> <xsl:copy-of select="@*" /> <xsl:apply-templates /> </xsl:copy> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="*[@delete="yes"]"> <xsl:text>&start-comment; </xsl:text> <xsl:copy-of select="." /> <xsl:text>&end-comment; </xsl:text> </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet> Output: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><artist>
<filename>aidan_oliver</filename>
</artist>
</source>