RE: HTML comments and SSI

Perhaps whitespace is not significant to the documentor the parser; however,
it is often very significant to the humans responsible for editing the
document. I suspect that this is what Richard was referring to. 

cheers,
~stuart 


Bjoern Hoehrmann [mailto:derhoermi@gmx.net] wrote:

* "Richard A. O'Keefe" <ok@atlas.otago.ac.nz> wrote:
| I wrote, about HTML Tidy changing the line breaking around comments:
| > Certainly a problem, because the two have different content.
| Alexander Biron replied:
| Maybe I miss something, but an include file normally contains HTML,
|
| Totally irrelevant.  The point remains:  the comment moving that
| HTML Tidy did in the original example CHANGES THE CONTENT of the
| document.

No. There is no change, whitespaces aren't significant at that point.