not addressed by a symbolic name

[Terry Scheingeld]

Sadly, removing those characters doesn't fix the problem. But you're right
that I accidentally left those comment characters in my example.

On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 3:59 PM Dominik Haumann <dhaumann at kde.org> wrote:

> Hi Terry,
>
> in case you still have an issue:
>
>     <context name="General Comment" attribute="Comment"
> lineEndContext="#pop">
>         <IncludeRules context="##Alerts" />-->
>
> At the end you have a trailing --> in this snippet. Not sure whether you
> have that also in your xml file, since my smartphone does not let me view
> the xml file.
>
> Best regards
> Dominik
>
> Terry Scheingeld <tscheingeld32 at gmail.com> schrieb am Mo., 2. Nov. 2020,
> 23:10:
>
>> I'm writing a syntax file for a JSON-like language. I started with a JSON
>> syntax file and have been modifying it a little bit at a time. The syntax
>> file is attached.
>>
>> I'm trying to add line-based comments to the syntax. That is, a #
>> character starts a comment, and the comment ends at the end of the line. I
>> copied some of the code from a Ruby syntax file. The problem is triggered
>> by the following line:
>>
>>     <DetectChar char="#"   context="General Comment" attribute="Comment"
>> />
>>
>> Later in the file is this context:
>>
>>     <context name="General Comment" attribute="Comment"
>> lineEndContext="#pop">
>>         <IncludeRules context="##Alerts" />-->
>>     </context>
>>
>> In the <ItemDatas> section is this line:
>>
>>     <itemData name="Comment" defStyleNum="dsComment"/>
>>
>> When I open a file with that syntax, I get a window that says "There were
>> warning(s) and/or error(s) while parsing the syntax highlighting
>> configuration. Clicking the details button gives this detail:
>>
>>
>> /home/terry/.local/share/org.kde.syntax-highlighting/syntax/axf.xml:Deprecated
>> syntax. Context General Comment not addressed by a symbolic name
>>
>> An image of that window is attached.
>>
>> I'm using Kate Version 17.12.3
>>
>> Any idea what's wrong with my syntax file?
>>
>
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