• To: Cliff Martin <cmartin@c...>
• Subject: Re: Using '--' in comments
• From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 22:44:13 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: Xml-Dev <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <JHEAJIBNGKFELHJMPIPAEEKOCAAA.cmartin@c...> from Cliff Martinat "Nov 14, 2001 08:50:35 pm"

Cliff Martin scripsit:

> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <test>
>         <!-- this command has one option --workdir -->
>         <cmd>test.exe --workdir c:/test</cmd>
> </test>
> 
> For some reason I can not use '--' in a comment. Is this by design, and if
> so how do I overcome it?

Yes, by design.  The only thing you can do is to break up the "--" somehow,
using "- -" or "-" or whatever.  This is for SGML compatibility.

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> 
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