>  <xsl:strip-space elements = "*" />

> is the best I could do to preserve the original comment and element
> layout, shown with beginning of input and output XML, below. Can this
> be improved? Losing empty lines is tolerable, losing line breaks is
> not so great.

Hi,

It's not clear what you are trying to do as your code conflicts with
your wordy description... maybe produce a simple small complete sample
with required output.

cheers
andrew


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