Possible to write HTML comments into wiki pages?

[quinn@…]

I'm finding that the HTML WikiProcessor strips-out comments. Is there any way to include HTML comments on a wiki page? The need is to paste in something like the machine-readable code generated by Creative Commons:

<!--
<rdf:RDF xmlns="http://web.resource.org/cc/"
    xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
    xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">
<Work rdf:about="">
   <license rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/GPL/2.0/" />
   <dc:type rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Software" />
</Work>
<License rdf:about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/GPL/2.0/">
<permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction" />
   <permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution" />
   <requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Notice" />
   <permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks" />
   <requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/ShareAlike" />
   <requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/SourceCode" />
</License>
</rdf:RDF>
-->

[cboos]

Have you tried with 0.11? I think this should now work.

[quinn@…]

I have not. I look forward to its release. Cheers!

[cboos]

here's an HTML comment (between the arrows):

→ ←

Appears to be stripped in 0.11. Maybe there could be a special htmlcomment processor for this?

[nkantrowitz]

Seems like a good case for a CC license macro.

[rblank]

Patch against trunk adding a htmlcomment wiki processor

[rblank]

The patch above adds a new htmlcomment wiki processor that allows embedding HTML comments, together with the relevant unit tests. Use it as follows:

{{{
#!htmlcomment
This is an HTML comment <em>with tags &amp; entities</em>.
}}}

This would generate the following block in the output:

<!--
This is an HTML comment <em>with tags &amp; entities</em>.
-->

Christian, is that what you had in mind? If so, let me know and I'll commit to trunk and update the documentation.