Re: Drop toplevel XML-comments in libxml-parse-(xml|html)-region?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:

> But the only problematic comment is the top-level one, because that
> makes the structure different than if the comment wasn't there.  Perhaps
> we could just cheat and push any top-level comments one step down in the
> DOM?  I mean, it's gross, but I don't think anybody would actually
> notice in real life.

It would mean that

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <foo>bar</foo>
<!--ignore me-->

would turn into

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <foo>bar</foo>
  <!--ignore me-->

where indentation represents where in the DOM the element appears.  Sort
of.

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