RE: emitting comments

[Pieter Rijken <pieter.rijken@xxxxxx>]

Hi Holger,

> 
> Here is a way to emit SGML comments:
> 
> (define (make-comment comment)
> 	(make formatting-instruction data: (string-append
> 		"<"
> 		"!--"
> 		comment
> 		"-->"
> 	))
> )
> 
> 
> Note the separation of "<" and "!--". If you put both into one
> string the whole result will be eaten. Is this a bug or a feature?

Neither, it's well-defined behaviour according to the spec. A DSSSL
file is just SGML, but with the contents in accordance with the
DSSSL spec. Because it's SGML '<!--' is the start of a comment.

pieter


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