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<fo:table-cell number-rows-spanned="3">. Dont you just love how wordy XSL is?

You may use the if condition. <xsl:if test="expression"> ...some output if the expression is true... </xsl:if>. Or choose, if theres more than one condition to check. <xsl:choose> <xsl...

The SAX2 ContentHandler interface does not receive notification of comments. For that you need a LexicalHandler. But the SAX2 helper class XMLFilterImpl does not implement LexicalHandler...