RE: [QT] CER-02 Line-oriented comment syntax

A line-oriented comment syntax would of course be a non-starter for
XPath. XPath expressions are frequently used inside XML attributes, and
line-endings within attributes don't survive XML parsing.

Michael Kay

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> [mailto:public-qt-comments-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Mary Holstege
> Sent: 15 February 2004 19:26
> To: public-qt-comments@w3.org
> Subject: [QT] CER-02 Line-oriented comment syntax
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> See related comment CER-01
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> Query Lang [3.1.6, Appendix A] Line-oriented comment syntax
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> Assume the expression: "This is fun :)". How do you comment 
> it out?  It is an area loaded with problems, and nesting of 
> comments should be removed . If the goal of nesting comments 
> is to allow the commenting out of large code blocks, it is 
> possible to add back in the # line-oriented commenting mechanism.  
> Modern text editors make it easy to #-mark many lines in a row.
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