From: Keith Fahlgren <keith@...>
Date: 2006-11-21T08:50:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Hpricot - best way to parse based on comments

On 11/20/06, Jerome --- <jerome@tut0r.com> wrote:
> I am trying to parse some files that contain comments like this:
> ...
> I am not aware of a way to refer to commented HTML
> through CSS or XPath selectors.

The XPath comment() selector will select all comments:

For example (xpath after -m flag):
keith@devel ~ $ xml sel -t -m '//comment()' -v '.' -n simple.xml
 one comment
 two comment

keith@devel ~ $ cat simple.xml
<simple>
  <!-- one comment -->
  <foo/>
  <!-- two comment -->
  <bar/>
</simple>


HTH,
Keith