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XML/SGML comments and marked sections
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SGML and XML comments are typically intended for the human reader of a document. This means that programs are not, in general, interested in comments. The exception occurs when the output of a program is itself intended to be read by humans and it is, therefore, appropriate to copy the comments from the input document to the output. An important example of the latter type of processing is converting an SGML or XML document to another form of SGML or XML document (for example, from one DTD to another) or enhancing a document with further elements, data content, and attributes. Copying the SGML and XML comments over to the output is most important when doing a "near identity transformation", when the "converted" document is identical to the source document, with only some parts or some aspects changed.

Marked sections are used for a variety of purposes:

Prerequisite Concepts
     Aided translation types
   Markup languages
 
  Related Syntax
   markup-comment
 
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