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: <!-- comment line 1 --><!-- comment line 2 --> Cheers,    - Steve --- On Sat, 6/20/09, David Lichteblau <david@lichteblau.com> wrote: From: David Lichteblau <david@lichteblau.com> Subject: Re: [cxml-devel] cxml:doctype function To: "Nunez Steve" <steve_nunez@yahoo.com> Cc: cxml-devel@common-lisp.net Date: Saturday, June 20, 2009, 3:20 PM Quoting Nunez Steve (steve_nunez@yahoo.com):

Thanks. What I am hoping for is a way to write multi-line comments. cxml:text doesn't seem to work outside elements.

Same approach. CL-USER> (cxml:with-xml-output              (cxml:make-character-stream-sink *standard-output*)            (cxml:comment (format nil "~%foo~%bar~%"))            (cxml:with-element "test")) <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>                                          <!--                                                                            foo                                                                              bar                                                                              --><test/>