Rene Rivera wrote:
> Paul A Bristow wrote:
> 
>> |  -----Original Message----- |  From:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf |  Of
>> Joel de Guzman |  Sent: 28 November 2006 11:17 |  To:
>> [email protected] |  Subject: Re: [Boost-docs]
>> Invisible comments? | |  Paul A Bristow wrote: |  > I can't see why
>> Quickbook comments are wanted in the XML. |  > | |  We need it in
>> order to do some more post processing of the XML. |  At least that's
>> how I understand Dave's need for it.
> 
> Paul, any chance we can get you to use the common ">" for quoting? Using 
> the "|" tends to cause thing like the above when replying :-(

I second that :P

>> It would be helpful to have the licence info replicated of course and
>> the licence as comment mechanism does now does that - or does it?
> 
>> Or is there something more complicated here?
> 
> Interesting that is the exact behavior I *don't* want, and what caused 
> me to pose the question in the first place. The use case I have is in 
> writing a utility qbk file which has a some templates in it. So lets say 
> I have an ext.qbk file, and following the Boost copyright+license rules 
> I put a copyright+license comment in it. Now I have a mydoc.qbk which 
> has the usual quickbook copyright and legal text in it. It includes the 
> ext.qbk to get the common templates. When generated the mydoc.xml will 
> end up with *two* possibly different license statements, and extra and 
> likely infringing copyright statement.

Also, now that I think about it some more, there's no harm
in writing:

     '''<!-- some doc-book comment here -->'''

if you need some comments to pass through.

Regards,
-- 
Joel de Guzman
http://www.boost-consulting.com
http://spirit.sf.net


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