Stephane Mottelet wrote:
> Why is not possible to wrap an existing element in
> a comment ? It is just possible to insert a comment
> before and after.
It is also possible to insert a comment *into* an element.
XXE has many shortcomings. Not being able to wrap an existing element in
a comment is just one of them.
Fortunately, XXE is extensible so you can write such a command yourself.
Just for the fun, I have written a simple version of this command as a
macro-command (I admit that it was pretty challenging to do that):
---
<command name="wrapInComment">
<macro trace="false">
<sequence>
<pass><command name="delete" /></pass>
<set variable="elementPrefix"
expression="concat('<', local-name($selectedElement))"/>
<command name="grabSelectedElement" />
<set variable="elementData" expression="%_" plainString="true"/>
<command name="insertNode" parameter="commentAfter" />
<set variable="newComment" expression="$selected" />
<command name="selectNode" parameter="previousSibling" />
<command name="delete" />
<set variable="dot" expression="$newComment" />
<get expression="concat($elementPrefix,
substring-after($elementData,$elementPrefix))"/>
<command name="paste" parameter="into %_" />
</sequence>
</macro>
</command>
<command name="grabSelectedElement">
<process showProgress="false">
<copyDocument selection="true" to="element.xml"
indent="true" encoding="UTF-8" />
<read file="element.xml" encoding="UTF-8" />
</process>
</command>
---
To play with this macro, simply save the attached file to
XXE_user_preferences_dir/config/customize.xxe and restart XXE.
(XXE_user_preferences_dir is "C:\Document and Setting\xxe2" on Windows.)
Note that:
[1] You need to explicitly select an element before pressing on F6 (I've
bound the command to function key F6).
[2] The selected element must not contain a comment.
[3] This simple version should work fine with documents conforming to a
DTD, but needs to be improved for use on multi-namespace documents
conforming to a W3C schema.
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