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> -----Original Message----- > From: Alaric B. Snell [mailto:alaric@a...] > Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 4:23 AM > To: Rick Jelliffe; xml-dev@l... > Subject: Re: On the promotion and demotion of information items > (was Re: RE: Take 2 - How do you replace comments from XML?) > SNIP > What happens to this .Net config file if you strip out the comments? > Presumably something breaks, unless the file isn't really a config file, > but > is just a representation of information stored in some other format > elsewhere > so the information isn't truly lost? BZZZZT! Wrong. Nothing breaks. Have you ever seen a .NET machine.config file? The comments in the machine.config file are exactly that, comments. They really are simply the documentation of the meaning of the values in the config file. The comments are information of great use to a human being looking at the file and meaningless to machine processing. The items in the original poster's config file (including those particular comments) aren't even part of the default machine.config file. What is it about this list that so often entices people to make ridiculous pronouncements concerning matters about which they know absolutely nothing?
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