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At 03:20 PM 11/26/2001 +0100, Patrick Gundlach wrote:

>\starttext
>\startbuffer
><!-- ignored comment -->
><one>one</one>
><!--not ignored -->
><two>two</two>
>\stopbuffer
>\processXMLbuffer
>\stoptext
>
>this should (as far as I understand the spec right) only output
>one two and not the second comment (<!--not ignored -->)

what exactly do you mean with 'output'? Should I treat <!--crap as being 
<!-- crap?

>it seems that the missing space between the -- and the n is
>causing this effect.
>
>Thats what the xml rec says:
>[15]
>Comment
>   ::=
>  '<!--' ((Char - '-') | ('-' (Char - '-')))* '-->'

ah, i instantly get an head ache when i see this line of spec

>I hope you don't understand me wrong: with all my bug reports
>I don't want to complain
>about context, which is in my eyes a great piece of software.

a bug reports <> comment -)

there should not be bugs; also i know rather well which pieces of context 
are coded ok (apart from bugs) and which parts are crap (which i have to 
work on), so keep on mailing

Hans
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