From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2005-07-08T10:26:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby in XML.

John Carter wrote:
...

> So add REXML and I present a very small script I call rubyexml. Ruby 
...

> 
> So take a chunk of XHTML...
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
> "xhtml11.dtd" >
...

> 
>    <body>
>       <h1>
>          The answer to life, the universe and everything is <!-- 44 - 2 -->
>       </h1>
> 

Question: If your document has instructions for processing, why not use 
processing instructions?  Why munge the semantics of the comments syntax?

Maybe take a look at how Nitro does this.


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