How can I comment a single line in XML?

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Roam picture Roam · Jun 26, 2013 · Viewed 415.1k times · Source

This rather is a verification just not to miss out.

Is/n't there a line-comment in XML? So, one without a closer, like "//" the compiler uses.

I saw How do I comment out a block of tags in XML? and several other discussions.

This type of comment would be practical to comment out a line without bothering its closer somewhere down.

Answer

kojiro picture kojiro · Jun 26, 2013

No, there is no way to comment a line in XML and have the comment end automatically on a linebreak.

XML has only one definition for a comment:

'<!--' ((Char - '-') | ('-' (Char - '-')))* '-->'

XML forbids -- in comments to maintain compatibility with SGML.

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