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["Al B. Snell" <alaric@alaric-snell.com>]

Quite a few schemas now have provision for comments, which can do stuff
like import from XHTML or DocBook namespaces. This clearly allows for rich
comments, unlike <!-- --> comments. Does this mean that <!-- --> comments
should be discouraged, except perhaps for "commenting out" bits as a 
temporary measure during development and the like? Is there a semantic
difference between comments on the *information* as opposed to comments on
the markup, which <!-- --> are for?

Not that I urgently need an answer, I was just sitting thinking about it
(can't sleep, y'see)

<!-- --> comments, like <?foo ?> PIs, seem to be one of those bits of XML
that nobody ever uses. At least, I never see them in the coding examples
around here. Oh yeah, and that <!NOTATION > thing is a bit of a pariah,
too... does anybody use entities to refer to stuff in favour of <foo
href="..." />, anyway? The latter seems much more convenient, since it
doesn't require all definitions to be gathered inside the <!DOCTYPE >...

ABS

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