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Posted to dev@xalan.apache.org by bu...@apache.org on 2002/03/06 17:37:17 UTC

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 6925] New: - contents not escaped

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<xsl:comment> contents not escaped

           Summary: <xsl:comment> contents not escaped
           Product: XalanJ2
           Version: CurrentCVS
          Platform: PC
               URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-Creating-Comments
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Major
          Priority: Other
         Component: org.apache.xalan.xsltc
        AssignedTo: xalan-dev@xml.apache.org
        ReportedBy: ville.skytta@iki.fi


The contents of <xsl:comment> are not escaped, see
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-Creating-Comments

This may result in malformed XML. I'll attach a patch for this
(which also comments out a couple of private methods obsoleted
by the fix).

--- sample xsl ---
<?xml version="1.0"?> 
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:comment>-- A - test --- comment -</xsl:comment>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>