Re: [relax-ng] compact syntax: feedback from RelaxNGCC

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

James Clark scripsit:

> The obvious solution to this is to provide an additional string syntax that 
> either uses a multi-character delimiter or a user-specified delimiter.  For 
> example, Perl has the sh here syntax:
> 
> <<END
> Any number of
> lines ending with a line containing what follows <<
> END

I think this, or something like it, is an excellent idea.  Python
has multi-line strings delimited by """ at each end, as another
possible syntax; unlike Perl/sh documents, these strings are embedded
directly, rather than beginning in the line following the one where
the "<<foo" appears.

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