[OSM-dev] comments in mapnik ruleset

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2009/8/17 John Smith <delta_foxtrot at yahoo.com>:
> --- On Mon, 17/8/09, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Therefore I noticed that some of the rules that are
>> inactive don't
>> have spaces between the last text and the
>> end-of-comment-sign.
>> Basically it is sometime <!--rule> instead of <!--
>> rule> and
>> <\rule--> instead of <\rule -->
>
> If it were html that would be how you comment a section out.

yes, it is of course about commenting out, but the question here was
if the spaces are required. Anyway, I found out that my other editor
(JEdit) is not needing them, so probably false alarm. (In the ruleset,
some comments have the spaces, some don't).

cheers,
Martin