[sc34wg3] Multi-line comments in CTM

[Patrick Durusau]

Greetings!

One of the issues that was discussed in Kyoto was the syntax for a 
multi-line comment delimiter.

I have come to wonder if the purpose of comment delimiter should have an 
impact on its syntax?

Consider that I might want to "comment out" an entire section of 
template definitions. In that case, inserting (or removing) a "#" mark 
from the front of each line would be very tedious. In that case, then 
some syntax:

##### Start comment

template(s)


##### End comment

(Replace #### with your candidate syntax) It would not necessarily have 
to be templates that are "commented out" but I use that simply as an 
illustration.


On the other hand, if I am merely using the comments to document some 
part of the topic map, then simply starting every line with a # is trivial.

#
# Here is a multi-line
# comment to document
# some fact or another
#

So, I guess my question is whether or not a multi-line comment mechanism 
is thought to be necessary for commenting out blocks of material in a 
CTM instance?

Hope everyone is having a great day!

Patrick


-- 
Patrick Durusau
patrick at durusau.net
Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34
Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps)
Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300
Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps)