Re: [xml-dev] XML2.0: Comments (Was: Towards XML 2.0)

[Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@gmail.com>]

I meant that if the <xml:comment> notation is accepted, it is likely
that the IDE's will start to handle commenting/uncommenting in a
satisfactory way (and described one such possible behaviour).

I didn't mean that the IDE's at present are doing good
commenting/uncommenting job whenever the commenting results in nested
comments -- probably because there isn't enough information to do the
uncommenting correctly.

However, it seems to me that the <xml:comment> mechanism could provide
sufficient information to reverse the commenting.


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On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Pete Cordell <petexmldev@codalogic.com> wrote:
> Original Message From: "Dimitre Novatchev"
>>
>> Who writes XML by hand today? Leave your IDE comment and uncomment
>> markup for you.
>
>
> Sadly the IDEs I tested are not up to it.  I put the following into Visual
> Studio 2005, 2008 and 2010:
>
> <TopElement>
>   <MyElement>
>       <!-- The price is changed by the controller -->
>       <price>100.00</price>
>   </BrokenMyElement> <!-- Is this the problem? -->
> </TopElement>
>
> I selected MyElement to /BrokenMyElement and told it to comment it out. This
> yielded:
>
> <!--<TopElement>
>   <MyElement>
>       --><!-- The price is changed by the controller --><!--
>       <price>100.00</price>
>   </BrokenMyElement> --><!-- Is this the problem? --><!--
> </TopElement>-->
>
> So far, so good.  I then told it to uncomment it, and it resulted in:
>
> <TopElement>
>   <MyElement>
>        The price is changed by the controller
>       <price>100.00</price>
>   </BrokenMyElement>  Is this the problem?
> </TopElement>
>
> Clearly that's failed.
>
> I also put the above into Eclipse.  When told to comment it out it did:
>
> <TopElement>
>   <!-- <MyElement>
>        The price is changed by the controller
>       <price>100.00</price>
>   </BrokenMyElement>  Is this the problem? -->
> </TopElement>
>
> That doesn't work either.
>
> Other IDEs may work better, although to be honest I don't think there is
> enough information in the commented out versions to make it reversible.
>
> So leaving it up to ther IDE doesn't seem like an option.
>
> Pete Cordell
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