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   RE: [xml-dev] RE: Take 2 - How do you replace comments from XML?

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  • To: "Danny Ayers" <danny666@virgilio.it>,<xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
  • Subject: RE: [xml-dev] RE: Take 2 - How do you replace comments from XML?
  • From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@microsoft.com>
  • Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 17:30:46 -0800
  • Thread-index: AcLjfaijwrcEvCtZRjmic4OwcE64jQAAaGgQ
  • Thread-topic: [xml-dev] RE: Take 2 - How do you replace comments from XML?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Danny Ayers [mailto:danny666@virgilio.it] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 5:12 PM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
>
> > Who, BTW, firmly agrees with other posters in that using 
> comments as 
> > start-tags and end-tags is a Really Bad Idea.
> 
> Who, BTW, hadn't looked too closely at what was being done 
> (shame on MS),

I'm curious, where exactly is the bad practice that calls for shame on
Microsoft's behalf? Since when was placing comments in an XML file a bad
thing?  

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