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Appealing to tool support makes me nervous. Why doesn't the current comment model work perfectly if the editor is really smart? On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:21 AM, David Carlisle <davidc@n...> wrote: > On 06/12/2010 00:08, Michael Kay wrote: >> >> I was assuming that if <xml:comment> were chosen to represent comments, >> its main (perhaps only) difference from other elements would be that it >> would be ignored for validation purposes - i.e it's not under schema >> control. > > You say "other elements" but wouldn't you want it to generate a comment node > rather than an element node, so not be selected by xpath * for example? > > If you have a schema that says every child of x is y, and a valid input, I'd > have thought that you'd want to know in advance that everything selected by > x/* was a sequence of y nodes. If xml:comment generates element nodes that > are ignored on validation, this assumption would be false. > >> >> I've been interested to read people's views that comments should be >> allowed to contain "non-well-formed" content. It's a worthwhile point, >> but I don't find it compelling. The editing tool that creates the >> comment can always escape any markup within the comment. > > Commenting is the easy bit, but if the editing tool is to also able to > uncomment regions, then it needs to fix up broken markup, or not allow you > to uncomment or allow you to generate non well formed document or something. > > David > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS > to support XML implementation and development. To minimize > spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. > > [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ > Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@l... > subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@l... > List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php > >
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