Machine-readable comments (Was: How is this part of the XSLT specificationto be interpreted?)

[David_Marston at lotus dot com]

Mike Brown says:
>Comments are not required to be reported by an XML parser, so you should
>never depend on being able to process them with XSLT.

Isn't that a little harsh? If I know what parser I'll be using, and I
know that the stylesheets won't be going to a place where an unknown
parser is used, why not have specially-structured comments? Recall that
<xsl:template match="comment()" />
is valid in XSLT, so the Working Group must have thought that the
above would work in many common parser/processor situations, and
indeed it does.
.................David Marston


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