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Re: bug xml parser emacs 21.1
From: |
Karl Eichwalder |
Subject: |
Re: bug xml parser emacs 21.1 |
Date: |
Tue, 06 Nov 2001 06:53:54 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) |
alex@gnu.org (Alex Schroeder) writes:
> I do not understand why the default should be to strip comments,
> however.
To prevent users from misusing comments for contents.
> You read an XML document, and write it back into another file. Do you
> want all the comments to be lost?
It depends. I recommend to use proper <comment>...</comment> elements
instead of hacky <!-- ... --> containers. Or porcessing instructions.
> Maybe other people can relate their expectations so that we may
> understand why people expect comments to disappear from the XML
> document when it gets parsed.
Because the SGML/XML application must not make use of comments.
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- bug xml parser emacs 21.1, Patrick Gundlach, 2001/11/03
- Re: bug xml parser emacs 21.1, Stefan Monnier, 2001/11/03
- Re: bug xml parser emacs 21.1, Stefan Monnier, 2001/11/03
- Re: bug xml parser emacs 21.1, Alex Schroeder, 2001/11/04
- Re: bug xml parser emacs 21.1, Karl Eichwalder, 2001/11/05
- Re: bug xml parser emacs 21.1, Alex Schroeder, 2001/11/05
- Re: bug xml parser emacs 21.1,
Karl Eichwalder <=
- Re: bug xml parser emacs 21.1, Alex Schroeder, 2001/11/06
- Re: bug xml parser emacs 21.1, Richard Stallman, 2001/11/07
- Re: bug xml parser emacs 21.1, Alex Schroeder, 2001/11/08