how can we handle XML commented tags portion?

[Pradeep Rathnayaka]

I got an error when xml covert into proto message by using protobuf-java-format library . can you tell me how to handle commented tags portion in the xml files?

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 /* Using XML file create a proto instance */

RouteGrant.Builder routGrant = RouteGrant.newBuilder();

XmlFormat.merge(sb.toString(), routGrant);

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below is my error message.

<RouteGrant><command_ref>1234</command_ref><grant_id>2233</grant_id><!--  

  <begin_point>

    <route_id>321</route_id>

    <point>

      <x>10000.0</x>

      <y>8000.0</y>

      <orientation>0.5</orientation>

    </point>

  </begin_point>

  --><end_point><route_id>321</route_id><point><x>10000.0</x><y>9000.0</y><orientation>0.5</orientation></point></end_point></RouteGrant>

com.googlecode.protobuf.format.XmlFormat$ParseException: 1:70: Expected identifier. -!

at com.googlecode.protobuf.format.XmlFormat$Tokenizer.parseException(XmlFormat.java:668)

at com.googlecode.protobuf.format.XmlFormat$Tokenizer.consumeIdentifier(XmlFormat.java:494)

at com.googlecode.protobuf.format.XmlFormat.mergeField(XmlFormat.java:835)

at com.googlecode.protobuf.format.XmlFormat.merge(XmlFormat.java:774)

at com.googlecode.protobuf.format.XmlFormat.merge(XmlFormat.java:722)

at com.ads.funcs.RouteGrantXml2Proto.xml2Proto(RouteGrantXml2Proto.java:37)

at com.ads.funcs.RouteGrantXml2Proto.main(RouteGrantXml2Proto.java:82)