Original Message From: "Michael Kay"
> I've been interested to read people's views that comments should be
> allowed to contain "non-well-formed" content. It's a worthwhile point, but
> I don't find it compelling. The editing tool that creates the comment can
> always escape any markup within the comment.
What if you're just sketching out the outline of your XML; back of envelope
stuff. So you want to do something like:
<xml:comment>
Need something like:
<path ...location attrs...>
Either <route> or set of <stage> elements
<Complexity (or should that be <difficulty>)>
Need a couple of metrics here
</>
</xml:comment>
Why should the XML community insist that that has to be well-formed? Does
the XML community gain anything by it being well-formed?
I could make the above well-formed, but as a developer I might want to do a
brain-dump and come back to it later. What right do we have to insist that
a developer has to fix the above comment before moving onto something else?
Or the IDE could 'fix' it, but I imagine that that would just put in a bunch
of gibberish that the developer would later have to unpick.
I think we should make XML easier to use, not harder.
Pete Cordell
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