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

[Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@gmail.com>]

> 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

That's Great.

A good example of little things that we can do immediately, that have
immediate value.

There are people who love talking and talking and not doing anything useful.

There are other people, who, just do small litttle things to make our
work easier.

Thank you, George.

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Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev
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On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 2:09 AM, 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.
>
> 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
>> Codalogic Ltd
>> Interface XML to C++ the easy way using C++ XML
>> data binding to convert XSD schemas to C++ classes.
>> Visit http://codalogic.com/lmx/ or http://www.xml2cpp.com
>> for more info
>>
>>
>>
>>
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