"Dale S. Johnson": # Comment characters in templates

>>>>> "Marten" == Marten Terpstra <Marten.Terpstra at ripe.net> writes:

    > Folks,

    > Dale Johnson from MERIT brings up the issue of allowing "#"
    > style comments in objects between attributes. From an
    > implementation point of view this is *very* simple. Any major
    > objections? The database sw would simply ignore them. Note that
    > they would have to be on a line by themselves, NOT inside an
    > attribute. An example would be:

    > person: Marten Terpstra address: RIPE Network Coordination
    > Centre (NCC) address: PRIDE Project address: Kruislaan 409
    > address: NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam address: Netherlands # This is
    > some comment phone: +31 20 592 5064 fax-no: +31 20 592 5090
    > e-mail: Marten.Terpstra at ripe.net nic-hdl: MT2 # And this as well
    > notify: marten at ripe.net changed: marten at ripe.net 941128 source:
    > RIPE

    > which would be processed normally, ie the # lines ignored. They
    > would not end up in the database of course.

    > Any major showstoppers here?


Well, no objections... this is really simple to implement, and may be
very useful.

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Benoit Grange
NIC France