Comments on the fly

[dhriti joshi]

Hi,

Is it possible to generate comments on the fly in java.
I have a String variable(containing xml code) that I want to include in the comments(for some external tool that wants to read xml from the comments or hidden text)
kindly suggest.

Thanks,
Dhriti.

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Huh?

[Srinivasa Raghavan]

Hi Can you please be more clear, If you want comments in your java class documentation then have a look at javadoc.
Do you mean to say the comments are in a xml file , you need a tool that parses the xml & update your soure code accordingly?

[dhriti joshi]

What I want is that say in my jsp i have a String variable

<%
String str="?xml version....>
<a>gfgf</a>
<b>jkjk<b>
..
.. ";
%>
<!--

Here I want the value of str

-->
Hopes this makes it clear

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

OK. It would have been helpful if you let us know you were talking about JSPs!

What's wrong with

<% String str = "foo"; %>
<a/><b/>
<!--
<%= str %>
-->

Works fine.

I'm going to move this to our "JSP" forum for any follow-up.