EL evaluated in comment

[codelion]

Seam built from CVS around March 15th 2007.

In .xhtml page took some not-ready code and <!-- commented it out.

Got exception with stack trace complaining that EL wasn't able to find a property or so, and that property name clearly was from within that comment in a #{notYetExisting.someProperty.

Is that supposed to be that way or is that a bug?

If a bug, is it new, known, fixed or will be fixed when?

[gavin.king]

This is a facelets question that has been discussed before. It is certainly not a bug.

[svadu]

use ui:remove

[codelion]

Thanks for both useful answers.

I solved the problem per http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Projects/FaceletsFAQ by adding to web.xml an entry

<!-- prevent XHTML comments from being rendered (by Facelets) -->
 <context-param>
 <param-name>facelets.SKIP_COMMENTS</param-name>
 <param-value>true</param-value>
 </context-param>