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