# Xml comments format?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-comments-format/301517>\
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**Created:** [December 10, 2009, 3:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-comments-format/301517 "2009-12-10T15:00:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![activa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8491ac/32.png) [@activa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/activa)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 3:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-comments-format/301517/1 "2009-12-10T15:00:57Z")

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The flash xml parser reads comments formatted like this:

/\* comment \*/

as xml content, but reads comments like this:

\<!-- comment --\>

as comments. The documentation shows comments formatted the second way. What gives?