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January 2, 2011 01:58
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XML Comments Suck
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| <container> | |
| <thing /> | |
| <!-- | |
| I think this is the least horrible way to format XML comment | |
| blocks. Even though it wastes two lines, at least it doesn't | |
| involve tons of indenting or horribly misaligned edges. | |
| --> | |
| <fooblah size="10" count="alot" /> | |
| </container> |
Tell me about it. At least it has support for comments, though! @getify has been trying to get people interested in a dialect of JSON that allows comments. That wouldn't go far enough for me - I want multiline strings.
I agree.
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I agree. I do the same thing when I need to write lengthy HTML comments.