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<!-- and ending tag --> placed at
the beginning and end of EVERY line to be treated as a
comment. Comments do not nest, and the double-dash sequence
"--"
may not appear inside a comment except as part of the closing
-->
tag. You must also make sure that there are no spaces in the start-of-comment
string.
For example, the line
<!-- This is commented out -->is a valid comment line, but the line
< !-- This is commented out -->is not, since there is a space between the left angle bracket and the exclamation mark.
Do not try to use comments this to "comment out" HTML that would otherwise be shown to the user, since some browsers (notably Mosaic) will still pay attention to angle brackets inside the comment and close it prematurely.
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