xml comment causing error

[dwagmuse]

<h:form id="skinForm2">

            <rich:panel >

                <f:facet name="header" position="center">

                    <h:outputText value="Presentation theme preferences" />

                </f:facet>

                <h:panelGrid border="0" columns="2">

                 <h:panelGroup>

                      <h:selectOneRadio value="#{skinBean.skin}"

                          border="0" layout="pageDirection" title="Changing skin" style="font-size: 8; font-family: comic"

                          onchange="submit()">

                           <f:selectItems value="#{skinBean.skinSetItems}" />

                      </h:selectOneRadio>

                      <h:commandButton value="Apply" />

                 </h:panelGroup>

                 <h:panelGroup>

                     <rich:accordion height="100" width="200">

                           <rich:accordionItem header="Item 1" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12;" >

                         Changing skin in runtime

                           </rich:accordionItem>

                        <rich:accordionItem header="Item 2" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12;">

                         This is a result of the modification "blueSky" skin

                        </rich:accordionItem>

                        <!--  harmless? -->

                  </rich:accordion>

                 </h:panelGroup>

             </h:panelGrid>

        </rich:panel>

</h:form>

When I add the harmless comment above the page loads ok first time, but when form submits I get an IllegalArgumentException.

SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet Faces Servlet threw exception

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException

    at org.richfaces.component.AbstractTogglePanel.getChildName(AbstractTogglePanel.java:502)

    at org.richfaces.component.AbstractTogglePanel.isActiveItem(AbstractTogglePanel.java:493)

    at org.richfaces.component.AbstractTogglePanel.processDecodes(AbstractTogglePanel.java:213)

...

Removing the comment, the problem goes away.

Is that supposed to happen?

Using RichFaces 4.0-CR1.

[ilya40umov]

Try this:

http://www.mkyong.com/jsf2/how-to-use-comments-in-jsf-2-0/

[dwagmuse]

That worked, but with a warning that the context parameter facelets.SKIP_COMMENTS is deprecated.

Use javax.facelets.FACELETS_SKIP_COMMENTS to avoid the warning.

Thanks