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

[George Cristian Bina <george@oxygenxml.com>]

Hi Pete,

FWIW oXygen handles nested comments. For your sample:

     <TopElement>
         <MyElement>
             <!-- The price is changed by the controller -->
             <price>100.00</price>
             </BrokenMyElement> <!-- Is this the problem? -->
     </TopElement>

after commenting it gives (note the escape of -- as -\-):

     <!--<TopElement>
         <MyElement>
             <!-\- The price is changed by the controller -\->
             <price>100.00</price>
             </BrokenMyElement> <!-\- Is this the problem? -\->
     </TopElement>-->

And then, un-commenting gets you back to the original.

Best Regards,
George
-- 
George Cristian Bina
<oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
http://www.oxygenxml.com

On 12/5/10 9:25 PM, Pete Cordell 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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