<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Thanks, but that's still a newline within an element. It's a fine point, and not terribly important, but ideally we want is something that produces:<div><br></div><div><!-- comment line 1 --></div><div><!-- comment line 2 --><br><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>    - Steve</div><div><br>--- On <b>Sat, 6/20/09, David Lichteblau <i><david@lichteblau.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: David Lichteblau <david@lichteblau.com><br>Subject: Re: [cxml-devel] cxml:doctype function<br>To: "Nunez Steve" <steve_nunez@yahoo.com><br>Cc: cxml-devel@common-lisp.net<br>Date: Saturday, June 20, 2009, 3:20 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Quoting Nunez Steve (<a ymailto="mailto:steve_nunez@yahoo.com"
 href="/mc/compose?to=steve_nunez@yahoo.com">steve_nunez@yahoo.com</a>):<br>> Thanks. What I am hoping for is a way to write multi-line comments.<br>> cxml:text doesn't seem to work outside elements.<br><br>Same approach.<br><br>CL-USER> (cxml:with-xml-output<br>             (cxml:make-character-stream-sink *standard-output*)<br>           (cxml:comment (format nil "~%foo~%bar~%"))<br>           (cxml:with-element "test"))<br><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>                                          <br><!--                                                             
               <br>foo                                                                             <br>bar                                                                             <br>--><test/>                                                                      <br></div></blockquote></div></td></tr></table><br>