Thank you, guys! You've been extremely helpful. I appreciate this very much.
Just to clear things up a bit -- we've been using ADF Faces until recently. We were using JSPs (the default in JDeveloper 10.1.3.x). Comments there were placed inside <!-- ... --> tags. That's why I assumed that it would be the same in facelets.
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