hi All,
I want to made a loop from root node but don;t take comment node...how can i check whether particular node is comment or else..
suppose i have a xml ..
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="MetricConfig.xslt"?>
-->
<!-- This source code (including its associated software) is owned
by Altiris and is protected by United States and international
intellectual property law, including copyright laws, patent
laws, and treaty provisions.
-->
<config>
<metrics>

<metric type="COMMAND" name="Processor User Time% AIX" guid="{aeddddb7-43fb-49a1-8842-752eaf0d1f5d}">
<query>
<Command>
<CommandLine>LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/vmstat 1 2 | /usr/bin/awk '{if(!/^$|^System|^.*-/){print $0;}}'</CommandLine>
</Command>
<ParsingRules>
<LineNumbersToParse>1,3</LineNumbersToParse>
<Return>
<Column name="us" type="float"></Column>
</Return>
</ParsingRules>
</query>
<datatype>Numeric</datatype>
<interval>30000</interval>
<timeout>5000</timeout>
</metric>
</metrics>
</config>

i want to make a loop only from config but node() function takes comment also..
Please help me out..

other possible solution, which excludes comments, but processes al other nodes:
<xsl:if test="not(self::comment())">