Re: Tidy (oct22) failed to parse comments

On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Yudong Yang wrote:

> I'm using tidy as a HTML parser for my program. There are some
> cases that tidy will make mistakes on comment contains a lot of
> '-'(although this is not good according to HTML4.0 ).  You could
> find the case in http://cn.yahoo.com/ I've made a fix for this
> problem.

Tidy wasn't recovering effectively after detecting malformed
comments.

SGML/XML says:

  good     <!---->
  bad      <!----->
  bad      <!------>
  bad      <!------->
  good     <!-------->

weird isn't it!

I will adjust the parser to trim trailing hyphens to the
nearest legal number.


Regards,

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