HTML Comments in a JSP Document

I am writing a JSP Document that has a number of comments. Some I want to be server-side such as version history and some I want to be client-side.
Using a JSP page this is easily achieved using JSP comments <%-- JSP comment for server-side --%> and HTML Comments.
Using XML syntax a number of things are apparent:
1. There is no XML equivalent of a JSP comment (this has been well doc'd for a long time).
2. In the Java EE tutorials the recommended alternative to a JSP coomment is a HTML comment.
3. Using HTML comments in a JSP document the web container omits these in the page output - and so they are server-side only just like a JSP comment.
Code Snippet:
<template xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page" xmlns:c="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" version="1.2">

</template>

So, my question is how do I generate a client-side comment in a JSP Document?
Thanks
Edited by: DJT on Mar 3, 2008 4:28 AM
Edited by: DJT on Mar 3, 2008 4:30 AM

I found this ....
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-07-2003/jw-0725-morejsp.html
One significant disadvantage of JSP documents is that no XML-compliant version of JSP comments exists. A JSP document developer can use client-side (HTML-/XML-style) comments or embed Java comments in scriptlets, but there is no JSP document equivalent to <%-- -->. This is a disadvantage because the other two commenting styles JSP documents can use have their own drawbacks. You can see the client-side comments in the rendered page using the browser's View Source option. The Java comments in scriptlets require placing Java code directly in the JSP document.
So try to embed the HTML comment inside scriptlet tags...
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