• From: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2010 23:33:13 +0000

> I can't see that allowing -- in comments is important enough to break
> the tool chain. If it were really that important, I'd suggest dropping
> comments completely and replacing them with<?comment text ?>  but it's
> probably simpler to just leave them in as is, imperfect though they
> are.
>
Let's break compatibility of both data and tools; just make sure there 
is a clean migration route in both directions for the data, which is 
where the big investment is.

For a comment syntax, what's wrong with <xml:comment>....</xml:comment>?

Michael Kay
Saxonica

• References:
  • Towards XML 2.0
    • From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@i...>
  • Re: Towards XML 2.0
    • From: "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@c...>
  • Re: Towards XML 2.0
    • From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@i...>
  • Re: Towards XML 2.0
    • From: Dave Pawson <davep@d...>
  • Re: Towards XML 2.0
    • From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@i...>