Re: Drop toplevel XML-comments in libxml-parse-(xml|html)-region?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Ulf Jasper <address@hidden> writes:

> Out of interest:  Why preserve xml/html comments at all except for
> re-generating an XML document?

In HTML it's necessary because you often include things that "aren't
supposed" to be parsed in comments.

Like

<!--
<script>
foo()
</script>
-->

For the JS stuff, it doesn't really matter much to us since we don't
execute it, but when doing web scraping to get data from a page, you
sometimes see commented-out bits that has to be re-parsed as HTML to get
the bit you're looking for.

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