Have you tried just an empty sequence? {() (: comment... :)} On Feb 1, 2017, at 5:01 PM, France Baril <france.baril@architextus.com<mailto:france.baril@architextus.com>> wrote: I was wondering if it would be possible to either: * Allow for an omit-comment option in HTML5 serializer * Allow for {(: Nothing but a comment :)} in xquery code. I often have long pieces of HTML to output and clients don't want me to output them with the result. However, I can't use {(::)}. I have been using useless code around my comments just to get around this issue: { let $t := '' return $t (: The comment I can't leave without the bogus code:) } Thanks! -- France Baril Architecte documentaire / Documentation architect france.baril@architextus.com<mailto:france.baril@architextus.com>