RE: JavaScript

[Kay Michael <Michael dot Kay at icl dot com>]

> However much I grumble that a comment is a comment and may be ignored.

But as a pure mathematician, you ought to be looking at how the word is
defined, and not at what it means in other contexts. The only thing XML says
about comments is that the parser may or may not allow the application to
see them.

I've just had an exchange with Norman Walsh complaining that the AElfred
parser (which I use by default) validates parameter entity references
occurring within comments in the DTD. But as far as I can see, if you ignore
preconceptions about the purpose of comments and just read the spec, that is
exactly what an XML parser should do.

But of course we're in this mess because all these specs actually rely very
heavily on unstated assumptions about the meaning of words.

Mike Kay 


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