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Re: Towards XML 2.0

• From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>
• To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
• Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2010 09:54:30 -0800

At 2010-12-04 23:33 +0000, Michael Kay wrote:
>For a comment syntax, what's wrong with <xml:comment>....</xml:comment>?

Why I would never support that syntax for a comment is that today when I say:

   <xsl:apply-templates select="*"/>

... I know I'm getting *only* my XML content and not any comments 
that might be injected by the user.

I feel comments are benign and must stay that way.  Already I have to 
deal with modeling the xml:* attributes in my schemas ... I wouldn't 
want to have to model comments as well.

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . . . . Ken

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