How do I comment out a block of tags in XML

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How do I comment out a block of tags in XML   I e  How can I comment out  lt staticText gt  and everything inside it  in the code below      lt detail gt       lt band height  20  gt         lt staticText gt           lt reportElement x  180  y  0  width  200  height  20   gt           lt text gt  lt   CDATA Hello World    gt  lt  text gt         lt  staticText gt       lt  band gt     lt  detail gt    I could use  lt  -- staticText-- gt  but that s just for single tags  as what I know   like    in Java and C  I would like something more like how     comment     can be used in Java and C  so I can comment out longer blocks of XML code

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You can easily comment out the data using this:

<!-- 
 <data>
        <data-field1></data-field1>
        <data-field2></data-field2>
        <data-field3></data-field3>
 </data>
-->

method of commenting in xml.

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You can wrap the text with a non-existing processing-instruction  e g     lt detail gt   lt  ignore    lt band height  20  gt       lt staticText gt         lt reportElement x  180  y  0  width  200  height  20   gt         lt text gt  lt   CDATA Hello World    gt  lt  text gt       lt  staticText gt     lt  band gt    gt   lt  detail gt    Nested processing instructions are not allowed and      ends the processing instruction  see http   www w3 org TR REC-xml  sec-pi

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Here for commenting we have to write like below    lt  -- Your comment here -- gt    Shortcuts for IntelliJ Idea and Eclipse  For Windows  amp  Linux   Shortcut for Commenting a single line   Ctrl      Shortcut for Commenting multiple lines   Ctrl   Shift      For Mac   Shortcut for Commenting a single line   cmnd      Shortcut for Commenting multiple lines   cmnd   Shift      One thing you have to keep in mind that  you can t comment an attribute of an XML tag  For Example    lt TextView     android layout width  match parent      android layout height  wrap content       lt  --android text  Hello   -- gt      android textStyle  bold    gt    Here  TextView is a XML Tag and text is an attribute of that tag  You can t comment attributes of an XML Tag  You have to comment the full XML Tag  For Example    lt  -- lt TextView     android layout width  match parent      android layout height  wrap content      android text  Hello        android textStyle  bold    gt -- gt

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You can use that style of comment across multiple lines  which exists also in HTML    lt detail gt       lt band height  20  gt       lt  --       Hello           I am a multi-line XML comment           lt staticText gt               lt reportElement x  180  y  0  width  200  height  20   gt               lt text gt  lt   CDATA Hello World    gt  lt  text gt             lt  staticText gt        -- gt        lt  band gt   lt  detail gt

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In Notepad   you can select few lines and use CTRL Q which will automaticaly make block comments for selected lines

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Actually  you can use the  lt  --   -- gt  format with multi-lines or tags    lt  --                   -- gt

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Syntax  for XML     lt  --Your comment-- gt     eg        lt  xml version    1 0  encoding    UTF-8    gt      lt  --here is your comment    -- gt      lt class list gt         lt student gt      lt name gt  lt  name gt      lt grade gt A lt  grade gt      lt  student gt      lt  class list gt     XML Comments Rules  Comments cannot appear before XML declaration  Comments may appear anywhere in a document  Comments must not appear within attribute values  Comments cannot be nested inside the other comments

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If you ask  because you got errors with the  lt  -- -- gt  syntax  it s most likely the CDATA section  and there the    gt  part   that then lies in the middle of the comment  It should not make a difference  but ideal and real world can be quite a bit apart  sometimes  especially when it comes to XML processing    Try to change the    gt   too      lt  --detail gt       lt band height  20  gt         lt staticText gt           lt reportElement x  180  y  0  width  200  height  20   gt           lt text gt  lt   CDATA Hello World  -- gt  lt  --  gt  lt  text gt         lt  staticText gt       lt  band gt     lt  detail-- gt    Another thing  that comes to mind  If the content of your XML somewhere contains two hyphens  the comment immediately ends there    lt  --  lt a gt  This is strange -- but true  lt  a gt  -- gt  --------------------------  comment ends here   That s quite a common pitfall  It s inherited from the way SGML handles comments   Read the XML spec on this topic

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