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

[Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com>]

On 6 December 2010 10:09, George Cristian Bina <george@oxygenxml.com> wrote:
> 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.

Ahh that's good to know - commenting out blocks of XML that already
contains comments has long been a massive pain... to the extent that I
would cut and paste the markup elsewhere instead.

A big +1 from me for nestable comments.


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