[bug-GIFT] Problem with placement of comments in gift-log.mrml

[David Squire]

Hi folks,

I have recently revived some code which parses the gift-log.mrml file 
for long-term learning purposes. I have discovered that in some gift 
version that has been released since I last used this stuff, code has 
been introduced that writes a comment block to the gift-log.mrml each 
time the server is started or a message is send, e.g.:

<!-- This instance of the GIFT was started on -->
<!-- Fri Jul 16 12:12:06 2004
-->
<!-- PID 2388 -->


<!-- The following message was sent by 
Peer INET Address: 127.0.0.1
At: Fri Jul 16 12:12:26 2004
--> 


Unfortunately there is a problem. These comment blocks appear *before* the

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>

line, which must start an XML document. Consequently they cause Perl's 
XML parser to choke. Could this order please be reversed?

Regards,

David

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