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RE: RE: Take 2 - How do you replace comments from XML?

• To: "Danny Ayers" <danny666@v...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: RE: Take 2 - How do you replace comments from XML?
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 17:30:46 -0800
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• Thread-topic: RE: Take 2 - How do you replace comments from XML?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Danny Ayers [mailto:danny666@v...] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 5:12 PM
> To: xml-dev@l...
>
> > Who, BTW, firmly agrees with other posters in that using 
> comments as 
> > start-tags and end-tags is a Really Bad Idea.
> 
> Who, BTW, hadn't looked too closely at what was being done 
> (shame on MS),

I'm curious, where exactly is the bad practice that calls for shame on
Microsoft's behalf? Since when was placing comments in an XML file a bad
thing?  

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