strip-comments.xsl

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--

    strip-comments.xsl

    Remove all comment nodes from a document.

-->
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:metadata">

    <!-- Force UTF-8 encoding for the output. -->
    <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="no" method="xml" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>

    <!-- Copy text blocks and attributes unchanged. -->
    <xsl:template match="text()|@*">
        <xsl:copy/>
    </xsl:template>

    <!-- Copy all elements from the input to the output, along with their attributes and contents. -->
    <xsl:template match="*">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>