Jules,
I need access to comments in XML documents for a small xml viewer/editor I’m knocking together.
Can you think of any reasons why the XMLDocument, and XMLElement couldn’t be rejigged to treat comments as a special node type (like text node)?
If I have a crack at doing this, and get it working, would you be interested in the code?
I’m thinking XMLDocument:getDocumentElement() could have a secondary parameter:
const bool treatCommentsAsWhitespace = true
and XMLElement could be given an isComment() method. I’m not sure stylistically whether accessing the comment text should be trough getText() (I.E. treat the comment as a text tag) or a special getComment() method, but I’m leaning towards the latter.