Re: Managing "comments" in XML documents like any other XML content

Subject: Re: Managing "comments" in XML documents like any other XML content
From: Isaac Rabinovitch <isaacr -at- mailsnare -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:31:45 -0800




Scott Abel wrote:

I'm trying to make the case for treating code 'comments' written in XML
documents as content. That is, I want to tag comments with a <comment>
element instead of "commenting it out" using the SGML comments notation
<!--comment goes here--!>.

Not a new idea.

http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-0/#CommVers

It certainly makes sense to have comments you can retrieve with a simple XML parser -- something you can't do with SGML comments. The downside is that you can get in trouble if <comment> isn't a part of your official syntax, whereas SGML comments always work.


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