Purpose of <comment/> in view1.xsl

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Mike Sharp - 10 Mar 2005 22:31 GMT

What's the purpose of the <comment/> tag in View1.xsl? How is it generated,
and is there any way to prevent it from being generated? For example,
examining view1.xsl in one particular InfoPath document, I see:

<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="my:Product"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</span>
</div>
<comment/>
<font style="FONT-SIZE: 24pt">
<font style="FONT-SIZE: 24pt">
<strong>

Regards,
Mike Sharp

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Brian Teutsch [MSFT] - 11 Mar 2005 00:28 GMT

Did you happen to paste some portion of your document from a web page or
other application? InfoPath probably won't be generating <comment> tags on
its own.

Brian

> What's the purpose of the <comment/> tag in View1.xsl? How is it
> generated,
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> Regards,
> Mike Sharp

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Mike Sharp - 11 Mar 2005 19:16 GMT

Hmmm...it's possible. The form was created by someone else in our group,
and while he was only pasting from one InfoPath form to another, it's highly
possible the tag was an artifact from Word (inline comment perhaps) or
something from an earlier incarnation.

That's good to know...I was a bit surprised when I saw it; I figured any
"custom" tag generated by InfoPath that I ran into would be scoped to a
namespace, and this one wasn't!

Thanks!
Mike Sharp

> Did you happen to paste some portion of your document from a web page or
> other application? InfoPath probably won't be generating <comment> tags on
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> > Regards,
> > Mike Sharp

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Brian Teutsch [MSFT] - 12 Mar 2005 23:58 GMT

Actually it is scoped to a namespace. <xsl:comment> is a defined way to
store comment information in an XSL file. InfoPath doesn't make any use of
that ability, but it's possible it was preserved/converted from another
application.

Brian

> Hmmm...it's possible. The form was created by someone else in our group,
> and while he was only pasting from one InfoPath form to another, it's
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>> > Regards,
>> > Mike Sharp

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Mike Sharp - 23 Mar 2005 01:52 GMT

Right, <xsl:comment> is scoped, but this strange tag was simply <comment/>.
I think you hit it on the head when you suggested it got there from a
copy-and-paste operation. I heard that it happened to them again, but now
they knew to look for the tag. I think it might be comming from the
discussion server...

Thanks for your help!

Regards,
Mike

> Actually it is scoped to a namespace. <xsl:comment> is a defined way to
> store comment information in an XSL file. InfoPath doesn't make any use of
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> >> > Regards,
> >> > Mike Sharp

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