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

[Mike Brown <mike@xxxxxxxx>]

> 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? 

You are correct.
Under those circumstances, it is not unreasonable.

   - Mike
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