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Asked: May 26, 20262026-05-26T22:08:59+00:00 2026-05-26T22:08:59+00:00

Is it valid to use a double-asterisk to indicate a line-comment in XML? I

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Is it valid to use a double-asterisk to indicate a line-comment in XML? I see this a lot in the XML files I’ve been assigned to parse.

Example:

</someClosingTag>
** This is my line comment in an XML file.
<someOpeningTag>
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    2026-05-26T22:08:59+00:00Added an answer on May 26, 2026 at 10:08 pm

    It is not an XML comment, but it may very well be a comment for the application that processes the content of the XML.

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