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On Thursday 06 March 2003 04:30, Rick Jelliffe wrote:
> MS considered the information in the comments not important enough for
> people to use for processing. Because XML has comments, they did not
> have to throw the information away just because it does not fit into their
> model: they jsut note the information as a second-class citizen.
Hmmm. I think they should have just put the information in attributes and
been done with it. People are free to ignore attributes they're not
interested in.
> Now along comes someone else who thinks "Oh, actually I can make use
> of that information!" The idea that people choose the information they
> want in an XML document does not only mean that people demote (strip)
> information items they are not interested in, it also can mean that people
> promote information items that the data provider was not interested in.
Well, if the information was specified as information rather than as
expendable human comments that happen to have machine-readable information
stored in them AND NOWHERE ELSE, then there'd be no need to promote anything
:-)
What happens to this .Net config file if you strip out the comments?
Presumably something breaks, unless the file isn't really a config file, but
is just a representation of information stored in some other format elsewhere
so the information isn't truly lost?
> Cheers
> Rick Jelliffe
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