[OS X TeX] (OT) Speaking of plist files...

[Herbert Schulz]

On Nov 25, 2006, at 4:23 PM, Maarten Sneep wrote:

>
> On 25-nov-2006, at 21:01, Jan Anderssen wrote:
>
>> Hi -
>>
>> sorry this is fairly unspecific, just an observation.
>>
>> On Nov 21, 2006, at 9:43 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
>>
>>> Are .plist files supposed to allow nested comments? Both plist  
>>> editors I have (PlistEdit Pro and Apple's Property List Editor)  
>>> are unhappy with them.
>>
>> I've never noticed an xml format which allowed nested comments of  
>> the form <!-- comment <!-- comment 2 --> -->. I don't know if it's  
>> a general limitation of xml though.
>
> "XML in a nutshell" (big nuts, but I digress) says:
>
> XML comments are syntactically similare to HTML comments. Just as  
> in HTML, the begin with <!-- and end with the first occurence of -- 
> >. The double hyphen must not appear anywhere inside the comment  
> until the closing -->. In particular, a three hyphen close like --- 
> > is specifically forbidden.
>
> A bit further it is explicitly stated that nested comments are not  
> allowed in XML.
>
> HTMH,
>
> Maarten

Howdy,

Well, that is what I expected.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)


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