Re: [xml] embedded comments in DTD

[Liam R E Quin <liam holoweb net>]

On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 16:53 +0200, Kris Breuker wrote:

> > <!ELEMENT xyz (instances_chop*, <!-- chop_enum with an atrribute for 
> > which instance is removed -->
[...]
> So I think the following should work:
>
> <!ELEMENT xyz (instances_chop*, -- chop_enum with an atrribute for which 
> instance is removed --
>                           group,
>                           .... more stuff
>
> but I'm afraid I cannot test this right now...

Please stop guessing :-) The XML specification does not allow this.

<!-- is a start comment, --> is an end comment, and you can't
put comments inside declarations.

SGML allows just -- to start and end a comment, but not XML.

Liam

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