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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: config files proposal
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Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org> wrote:
: I think this makes XML a better idea; we can allow for a "comment" tag
: that is saved in the memory image, and written back out.

Incidentally, comments aren't lost in XML and each comment
belongs to an element. Namely, the element in which it appears.
There is a comment() function available to XPath expressions,
and a comment element type in XSLT for the creation of comment
nodes in the output.

(In SGML, things are even fancier. Comments are more Ada like,
except at both ends -- like so -- and they can appear in more
places than in XML.)

-- Georg