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   RE: [xml-dev] How do you remove comments from XML?

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You should be able to get them as child nodes - if I remember correctly they
won't have a name, only a value (the text).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dominica DeGrandis [mailto:Dominica.DeGrandis@corbis.com]
> Sent: 05 March 2003 19:41
> To: 'xml-dev@lists.xml.org'
> Subject: [xml-dev] How do you remove comments from XML?
>
>
> I'm writing a vb or vbscript program that uses the DOM to remove
> nodes in an
> XML file.
> I need to remove all the data between the two comment lines (see below),
> <!-- Start xxxx.Net --> and <!-- End xxxx.Net -->
> but the program errors when it hits the comment syntax. <! -->.
> I'm able to use "getElementsByTagName" or "selectNodes" for other nodes
> (like <appsettings> below) , but not for comments.
> It doesn't recognize the node even if I Dim it as IXMLDOMComment.
>
> Can anyone help me with this?
>
> example XML file
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <configuration>
> 	<appSettings>
>        <!-- Start xxxx.Net -->
>             <!-- ServerType, PartnerAPI = 2, CorbisInternal = 1 -->
>             <add key="ServerType" value="1"/>
>             <!-- Framework -->
>             <add key="xxxxOne.Validations.ValidationConstructString"
> value="CONNECTIONSTRING=data"/>
>
> 	 <!-- End xxxx.Net -->
> 	</appSettings>
>
>
> Dominica DeGrandis
> 206.373.6225 DH  m,t,th,f
> 425.844.8477 HM  w
>
>
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