From 430f1eb11039227310feb44759762bb72755e9e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: kkoehler <Kristian.Koehler@source-fellows.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2022 11:55:23 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] added support for skipping comments in result xml

---
 node.go | 16 +++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/node.go b/node.go
index d7994d6..e49358c 100644
--- a/node.go
+++ b/node.go
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ type outputConfiguration struct {
 	printSelf              bool
 	preserveSpaces         bool
 	emptyElementTagSupport bool
+	skipComments           bool
 }
 
 type OutputOption func(*outputConfiguration)
@@ -73,6 +74,13 @@ func WithEmptyTagSupport() OutputOption {
 	}
 }
 
+// WithoutComments will skip comments in output
+func WithoutComments() OutputOption {
+	return func(oc *outputConfiguration) {
+		oc.skipComments = true
+	}
+}
+
 // InnerText returns the text between the start and end tags of the object.
 func (n *Node) InnerText() string {
 	var output func(*bytes.Buffer, *Node)
@@ -121,9 +129,11 @@ func outputXML(buf *bytes.Buffer, n *Node, preserveSpaces bool, config *outputCo
 		buf.WriteString("]]>")
 		return
 	case CommentNode:
-		buf.WriteString("<!--")
-		buf.WriteString(n.Data)
-		buf.WriteString("-->")
+		if !config.skipComments {
+			buf.WriteString("<!--")
+			buf.WriteString(n.Data)
+			buf.WriteString("-->")
+		}
 		return
 	case DeclarationNode:
 		buf.WriteString("<?" + n.Data)