- From: John G. Spragge <spragge@umich.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 05:20:11 -0400
- To: <www-dom@w3.org>
Since writers often use comments in all languages to exclude parts of a document or program from processing (what we call "commenting out" source text, I would suggest that any implementation that stores comments ought to store them as unmodified strings. Consider the effects of expanding on this common situation: <?xml version=1?> <!-- <!ENTITY a "a string"> --> <p>some text.</p> <!-- more text we don't want to display, with &a; --> In fact, I would go so far as to allow embedded CDATA sections in comments. -- J. G. Spragge ---------- standard disclaimers apply Essays on capital punishment and network ethics at http://www-personal.umich.edu/~spragge
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