[UIMA-239] Tools like the CDE which use XML parsing should preserve XML comments; parsers should provide access to XML comments.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.4.1SDK
• Component/s: Core Java Framework, Tools
• Assignee: Marshall Schor
• Reporter: Marshall Schor
• Created: 27/Jan/07 13:27
• Updated: 04/Nov/13 15:33
• Resolved: 20/Jan/12 19:37

Description

An example of a problem which happens if this is not done: the descriptors that come with the UIMA toolkit have a comment that specifies the license information for that file. If you edit a descriptor containing such a comment with the CDE, it strips out all comments.

An alternative for license info: add a new, optional element to the descriptor for specifying the license (but this might be ambigious as to what is being licensed - the descriptor file or what it refers to or ??? )

Issue Links

• relates to: UIMA-3404 Correct faulty merge from svn branch "xmlComments"