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In HTML, a common practice is to surround <script> tags containing Javascript code with comments of the <!-- --> form. This was done to allow older browsers to not break on unknown <script> tags. For some reason, this practice seems to have continued with XHTML. Also, there are quite a few cases where JavaDoc-type constructs have been embedded inside XML comments. Are these the kinds of comments you're thinking about? ramin > -----Original Message----- > From: Al B. Snell [mailto:alaric@a...] > Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 6:41 PM > To: The Deviants > Subject: Comments > > > > Quite a few schemas now have provision for comments, which can do stuff > like import from XHTML or DocBook namespaces. This clearly allows for rich > comments, unlike <!-- --> comments. Does this mean that <!-- --> comments > should be discouraged, except perhaps for "commenting out" bits as a > temporary measure during development and the like? Is there a semantic > difference between comments on the *information* as opposed to comments on > the markup, which <!-- --> are for? > > Not that I urgently need an answer, I was just sitting thinking about it > (can't sleep, y'see) > > <!-- --> comments, like <?foo ?> PIs, seem to be one of those bits of XML > that nobody ever uses. At least, I never see them in the coding examples > around here. Oh yeah, and that <!NOTATION > thing is a bit of a pariah, > too... does anybody use entities to refer to stuff in favour of <foo > href="..." />, anyway? The latter seems much more convenient, since it > doesn't require all definitions to be gathered inside the <!DOCTYPE >... > > ABS > > -- > Alaric B. Snell > http://www.alaric-snell.com/ http://RFC.net/ http://www.warhead.org.uk/ > Any sufficiently advanced technology can be emulated in software > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org, an initiative of OASIS > <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To unsubscribe from this elist send a message with the single word > "unsubscribe" in the body to: xml-dev-request@l... >
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