xml-dev - SAX Api and comments.

[David Megginson <david@megginson.com>]

Joe Duhamel writes:

 > Is ther a facility inside sax for picking up the comments?  We are
 > using an XML Document to model a UML System and would like to
 > 'preserve' comments from any hand editing that may have been done.

No, there is not -- XML comments are purely lexical.  If you want to
include comments that are significant to the document, then you might
want to consider representing them as elements:

  <declaration>
    <comment>Last modified 1998-07-13</comment>
    ...
  </declaration>


All the best,


David

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