- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 00:03:16 -0400
- To: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Cc: public-microxml@w3.org
On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 21:33 -0400, John Cowan wrote: > 5. Are comments allowed? The consensus so far seems to be yes. > They assist human authoring, although they are not meant to convey > the semantics that the element is *always* empty. I'm slightly confused here. But yes, we should allow comments, and there should be no requirement to put them in a data model. Editors will obviously have to treat them differently, but that's life for editing software. My position on PIs is that they are essentially comments with special syntax, rather like %% comments in PostScript. So I have to support including comments :) -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml Co-author, 5th edition of "Beginning XML", Wrox, July 2012. It's a book.
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