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

[Lana Brindley]

Jared Smith wrote:
> 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 
> 

Jared,

Skuse my ignorance ... but what does that line actually do?

L
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