> I can't see that allowing -- in comments is important enough to break
> the tool chain. If it were really that important, I'd suggest dropping
> comments completely and replacing them with<?comment text ?> but it's
> probably simpler to just leave them in as is, imperfect though they
> are.
>
Let's break compatibility of both data and tools; just make sure there
is a clean migration route in both directions for the data, which is
where the big investment is.
For a comment syntax, what's wrong with <xml:comment>....</xml:comment>?
Michael Kay
Saxonica
