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    copied!<p>You'll have to do an <code>xsl:apply-templates</code> for the preceding sibling <code>comment()</code>'s. Since you're changing the order of <code>weight</code>/<code>color</code>/<code>state</code>, you'll have to add it to each one of their templates.</p> <p>Also, matching <code>Comment 3</code> is tricky and what I did might not work for your actual data.</p> <p><strong>XML Input</strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;elements&gt; &lt;stack&gt; &lt;name&gt;Ray&lt;/name&gt; &lt;status&gt;0&lt;/status&gt; &lt;/stack&gt; &lt;!-- Comment 1 --&gt; &lt;things&gt; &lt;!-- Comment 2 --&gt; &lt;thing&gt; &lt;color&gt;red&lt;/color&gt; &lt;!-- State Comment --&gt; &lt;state&gt;solid&lt;/state&gt; &lt;!-- Weight Comment 1 --&gt; &lt;!-- Weight Comment 2 --&gt; &lt;weight&gt;45&lt;/weight&gt; &lt;unit&gt;34&lt;/unit&gt; &lt;!-- Comment 3 --&gt; &lt;/thing&gt; &lt;/things&gt; &lt;favs&gt; &lt;stick&gt;ready&lt;/stick&gt; &lt;!-- Comment 4--&gt; &lt;/favs&gt; &lt;/elements&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>XSLT 1.0</strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"&gt; &lt;xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/&gt; &lt;xsl:strip-space elements="*"/&gt; &lt;xsl:template match="node()|@*"&gt; &lt;xsl:copy&gt; &lt;xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/&gt; &lt;/xsl:copy&gt; &lt;/xsl:template&gt; &lt;xsl:template match="things"&gt; &lt;mainElements&gt; &lt;xsl:apply-templates select="thing|comment()"/&gt; &lt;/mainElements&gt; &lt;/xsl:template&gt; &lt;xsl:template match="thing"&gt; &lt;specialThing&gt; &lt;xsl:apply-templates select="weight"/&gt; &lt;xsl:apply-templates select="color"/&gt; &lt;xsl:apply-templates select="state"/&gt; &lt;/specialThing&gt; &lt;xsl:apply-templates select="comment()[not(following-sibling::*)]"/&gt; &lt;/xsl:template&gt; &lt;xsl:template match="weight"&gt; &lt;xsl:apply-templates select="preceding-sibling::comment()[generate-id(following-sibling::*[1])=generate-id(current())]"/&gt; &lt;PropertyOne&gt; &lt;xsl:value-of select="."/&gt; &lt;/PropertyOne&gt; &lt;/xsl:template&gt; &lt;xsl:template match="color"&gt; &lt;xsl:apply-templates select="preceding-sibling::comment()[generate-id(following-sibling::*[1])=generate-id(current())]"/&gt; &lt;PropertyTwo&gt; &lt;xsl:value-of select="."/&gt; &lt;/PropertyTwo&gt; &lt;/xsl:template&gt; &lt;xsl:template match="state"&gt; &lt;xsl:apply-templates select="preceding-sibling::comment()[generate-id(following-sibling::*[1])=generate-id(current())]"/&gt; &lt;PropertyThree&gt; &lt;xsl:value-of select="."/&gt; &lt;/PropertyThree&gt; &lt;/xsl:template&gt; &lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>XML Output</strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;elements&gt; &lt;stack&gt; &lt;name&gt;Ray&lt;/name&gt; &lt;status&gt;0&lt;/status&gt; &lt;/stack&gt; &lt;!-- Comment 1 --&gt; &lt;mainElements&gt; &lt;!-- Comment 2 --&gt; &lt;specialThing&gt; &lt;!-- Weight Comment 1 --&gt; &lt;!-- Weight Comment 2 --&gt; &lt;PropertyOne&gt;45&lt;/PropertyOne&gt; &lt;PropertyTwo&gt;red&lt;/PropertyTwo&gt; &lt;!-- State Comment --&gt; &lt;PropertyThree&gt;solid&lt;/PropertyThree&gt; &lt;/specialThing&gt; &lt;!-- Comment 3 --&gt; &lt;/mainElements&gt; &lt;favs&gt; &lt;stick&gt;ready&lt;/stick&gt; &lt;!-- Comment 4--&gt; &lt;/favs&gt; &lt;/elements&gt; </code></pre>
 

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