[publican-list] Comments in XML files, good, bad, or ugly?

[Michael Hideo-Smith]

----- "Lana Brindley" <lbrindle at redhat.com> wrote:

> From: "Lana Brindley" <lbrindle at redhat.com>
> To: "Jonathan Robie" <jonathan.robie at redhat.com>
> Cc: "publican" <publican-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 7:52:43 AM GMT +10:00 Brisbane
> Subject: Re: [publican-list] Comments in XML files, good, bad, or ugly?
>

> I think the CDATA stuff may possibly be (from Jeff's point of view, 
> anyway) a different argument. CDATA definitely has its uses,
> especially for the type of stuff that Jonathan and I have been working on with
> MRG. 
> I do believe there are some extenuating circumstances with CDATA and
> how Publican handles verbatim text though, so I'll let Jeff respond to
> that!


CDATA is extremely important to the writers in the java space. specifically, jboss. as it allows them to feed the code from docbook into their test harness.