[jdom-interest] XML comments

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 2:35 PM -0700 1/4/02, Justin Wall wrote:

>	Are comments in XML documents supposed to be ignored by 
>parsers?  Which ones have methods (or events) to get the comment 
>blocks?  We are thinking of adding some of our own metadata tags 
>within the comments so it doesn't break the application server.  I 
>also would like to parse the file with my own program and get the 
>metadata.
>

That's what processing instructions are for. Don't use comments for 
this in XML.
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