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> But the problem I see with Mike's <xml:comment/> proposal is that it implies > that the body of the comment is well-formed. I think this is too onerous if > you're trying to hack stuff out to see where it's broken, and likely to push > someone over the edge. > > That's what I tried to convey in my example; where the start tag and end tag > don't match Who writes XML by hand today? Leave your IDE comment and uncomment markup for you. The IDE will know how to do this -- perhaps it will escape/unescape the characters as necessary, but still display them unescaped in a suitable color/bgcolor combination. When trying to uncomment a non-well-formed markup the IDE will: 1. Warn you. 2. Not unescape, in case if you go on. There are many ways to safely carry out commenting/uncommenting with an IDE. -- Cheers, Dimitre Novatchev --------------------------------------- Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence. --------------------------------------- To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk ------------------------------------- Never fight an inanimate object ------------------------------------- You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 6:10 AM, Pete Cordell <petexmldev@c...> wrote: > Original Message From: "Dave Pawson" > >>> There seems to be two main uses of comments in XML today which is >>> aligned with the two schools of thought in this thread: >>> >>> 1.] Simply commenting out code or adding TODOs etc. - similar use to >>> standard code comments. >>> ... > >> With  a KISS hat on, Use Mikes idea, >> and don't parse them any differently to any other element. >> That would answer the basic need, 1 above. > > But the problem I see with Mike's <xml:comment/> proposal is that it implies > that the body of the comment is well-formed.  I think this is too onerous if > you're trying to hack stuff out to see where it's broken, and likely to push > someone over the edge. > > That's what I tried to convey in my example; where the start tag and end tag > don't match: > > <!-- Ignore this until I fix it -- > <MyElement> >  <!-- The price is changed by the controller --> >  <price>100.00</price> > </BrokenMyElement> <!-- Is this the problem? --> > --> > > Pete Cordell > Codalogic Ltd > Interface XML to C++ the easy way using C++ XML > data binding to convert XSD schemas to C++ classes. > Visit http://codalogic.com/lmx/ or http://www.xml2cpp.com > for more info > > > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > 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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