[publican-list] Comments in XML files, good, bad, or ugly?

Jared Smith jaredsmith at jaredsmith.net
Wed Oct 15 04:27:04 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 15:21 +1100, Lana Brindley wrote:
> What else are comments good for? Is there anything that can be achieved 
> with comments that _can't_ be achieved through the use of another tag 
> (like <remark>)?

I, for one, like to put a comment at the very bottom of my XML files
that looks like:

!-- 
vim: softtabstop=2:shiftwidth=2:expandtab:textwidth=72 
-->

I realize it's a pretty trivial example, but it's just a single example
of one of the many places a <remark> just doesn't seem to fit.

-Jared 




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