Comment on What was the strangest coding standard rule that you were forced to follow?parentComments−wladimir13yBut why XML? IMO the doxygen / javadoc style of comments makes for much less pollution. XML is not a good format for text that is to be read by humans.−ygra13yJavadoc is tied so closely to HTML that any output format other than HTML is quite difficult to achieve.−afandian13yIt's been a while so I'm a bit rusty. But for most comments it would just be a start and end tag. You could also reference other types, XHTML style.
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But why XML? IMO the doxygen / javadoc style of comments makes for much less pollution. XML is not a good format for text that is to be read by humans.
Javadoc is tied so closely to HTML that any output format other than HTML is quite difficult to achieve.
It's been a while so I'm a bit rusty. But for most comments it would just be a start and end tag. You could also reference other types, XHTML style.