Merrill Cornish wrote:
Jim,

How would this differ from using XML comments in the build
files?


Clumsiness, or lack thereof.

XML comments are verbose and stand on a level with the elements they
are supposed to be commenting on.  Therefore, it's not always clear
who they apply to.

Personally, there's a simple reason of correctness rather than nicety...

XML comments are not nestable. Therefore, if XML comments have been used to document a build file, then it becomes impossible to simply comment out a portion of the build file (usually for debugging, but also often for refactoring, to keep the old implementation nearby while testing) by enclosing it in a single XML comment.

-T



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