"<?ignore" directive

[tonyk]

let me apologize in advance for what is probably a stupid question, but in one of the dot-lzx files in one of the demos i find the following:

<?ignore
<view ...
</view>
?>

i'm guessing that this is similar to xml comment syntax (<!-- comment -->), but i've never seen it before. is this an lzx directive, an xml directive, a javascript directive, or what?

thanks,
tony.

[metasarah]

In xml <? ... ?> is a compiler directive and completely ignored by any XML processor. We use
<? ignore ...
to effectively comment out blocks of XML (the "ignore" string is just a comment of sorts), since you can't enclose an XML comment within an XML comment.

[tonyk]

thanks for your reply.

so how is that different from an XML comment?

<!-- ignore -->

<? ignore ?>

sounds like they amount to the same thing,
but is there some subtle difference that is eluding me?

[tonyk]

duh, never mind.

i should always re-read things twice, cause i just re-read your response and got the bit about embedded xml comments.

so while you can't do:

<!-- <!-- comment --> -->

you can do:

<? ignore <!-- comment --> ?>

thanks again!