- From: <html-tidy@war-of-the-worlds.org>
- Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 13:43:01 -0600
- To: html-tidy@w3.org
Darren Forcier <dforcier@allaire.com> wrote: ^^^^^^^^^^^ > CFML is a dynamic, server side language. When you do commenting, > sometimes you may want server side-comments only that won't show > up on the client-side generated HTML. > > ColdFusion is a server-side HTML-like markup language which Tidy > can support using additional keyword configurations, one of which > is an alternate comment syntax to allow you to document your server > side CFML, but not have the comments show up in the resulting > client-side HTML, which could compromise security. > > CFML allows you to use <--- ---> as server-side comments which get > processed by the Cold Fusion engine and won't show up in the > generated client-side HTML which results. But HTML Tidy doesn't operate on your engine's results; it operates on files. The designers of your "server-side comments" should have thought twice about throwing non-HTML data into an HTML file. Proprietizer! Perhaps HTML Tidy should have some generalized code to handle any instance of <x--...--x> where "x" is any single character (matching) to handle all the many syntax of server-side directives (except Apache's <!--#...-->) it deals with already as well as any more the next eager beaver decides to come up with. Meanwhile, this is a very crappy syntax Allaire has come up with as it adds another layer of confusion upon comment syntax. Couldn't you have come up with a different character to use than "-"? Is there any additional syntax to CFML's <---...---> markup that we could use to disambiguate it from (other) badly formatted comments? -- ,=<#)-=# <http://www.war-of-the-worlds.org/> ,_--//--_, _-~_-(####)-_~-_ "Did you see that Parkins boy's body in the tunnels?" "Just (#>_--'~--~`--_<#) the photos. Worst thing I've ever seen; kid had no face."
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