Re: Removing XML comments with regex

You can also use an identity transform in XSLT that's coupled with an exception:

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" versi
+on="1.0">
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>

    <xsl:template match="@* | node()">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()" />
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>
    
    <xsl:template match="comment()" />
    
</xsl:stylesheet>
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Re^2: Removing XML comments with regex
by Jenda (Abbot) on Oct 25, 2007 at 01:03 UTC

My eyes hurt. That's worse than Hello World in Java.

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Re^3: Removing XML comments with regex

by runrig (Abbot) on Oct 25, 2007 at 04:42 UTC

That's actually fairly simple and idiomatic (I recognized the match and copy everything bit right away, and the first part is verbage that goes on every stylesheet in some form). It's at least no worse than when people who don't know perl complain about perl.

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Re^3: Removing XML comments with regex

by eff_i_g (Curate) on Oct 25, 2007 at 04:08 UTC

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Re^4: Removing XML comments with regex

by runrig (Abbot) on Oct 25, 2007 at 04:52 UTC

XML::LibXSLT

XML::XSLT

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Re^4: Removing XML comments with regex

by Jenda (Abbot) on Oct 25, 2007 at 11:15 UTC

Extremely fast? Doesn't really look like it at least in some cases, especially as the processed XML grows. have a look eg. at the benchmark section in this document about XStream. It doesn't seem to handle huge documents so well either.

And I would definitely not call that "simple touch of XPath".

I'll see if I can find time during the weekend to implement the comment stripping using a few modules and benchmark it against XSLT. I do bet it's an overkill.

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Re^5: Removing XML comments with regex

by runrig (Abbot) on Dec 28, 2007 at 20:59 UTC

Re^6: Removing XML comments with regex

by Jenda (Abbot) on Dec 28, 2007 at 22:02 UTC

Re^6: Removing XML comments with regex

by Anonymous Monk on Dec 28, 2007 at 21:02 UTC

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