Comments allows descriptive text to be included that is not placed
into the output of the template engine. Comments are a useful way of
reminding yourself and explaining to others what your VTL statements
are doing, or any other purpose you find useful. Below is an example
of a comment in VTL.
A single line comment begins with end of the line. If you're going to write a few lines of commentary,
there's no need to have numerous single line comments. Multi-line
comments, which begin with , are
available to handle this scenario.
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This is text that is outside the multi-line comment.
Online visitors can see it.
Here is text outside the multi-line comment; it is visible.
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Here are a few examples to clarify how single line and multi-line
comments work:
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This text is visible. This text is visible.
This text is visible. This text is outside
the comment, so it is visible.
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There is a third type of comment, the VTL comment block, which may
be used to store such information as the document author and
versioning information: