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• To: "Alaric B. Snell" <alaric@a...>,"Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: On the promotion and demotion of information items (was Re: RE: Take 2 - How do you replace comments from XML?)
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 04:23:14 -0800
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• Thread-topic: On the promotion and demotion of information items (was Re: RE: Take 2 - How do you replace comments from XML?)

I'm curious. Have you ever seen a machine.config file? If so I'd like to know why you think config file comments should be placed in an attribute simply because you seem to have some aversion to using certain aspects of XML. 
 
I can't imagine anything uglier than putting a multiline comment into an attribute simply to satisfy some perverse need to not use XML comments. 

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From: Alaric B. Snell [mailto:alaric@a...]
Sent: Thu 3/6/2003 2:23 AM
To: Rick Jelliffe; xml-dev@l...
Subject: Re:  On the promotion and demotion of information items (was Re:  RE: Take 2 - How do you replace comments from XML?)



On Thursday 06 March 2003 04:30, Rick Jelliffe wrote:

> MS considered the information in the comments not important enough for
> people to use for processing.  Because XML has comments, they did not
> have to throw the information away just because it does not fit into their
> model: they jsut note the information as a second-class citizen.

Hmmm. I think they should have just put the information in attributes and
been done with it. People are free to ignore attributes they're not
interested in.

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