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Re: DHTML style guide has broken links...

From: Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@utoronto.ca>
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:56:03 -0400
Message-ID: <4874FBB3.9000706@utoronto.ca>
To: James Nurthen <james.nurthen@oracle.com>
CC: Chris Blouch <cblouch@aol.com>, "Evans, Donald" <Donald.Evans@corp.aol.com>, "wai-xtech@w3.org" <wai-xtech@w3.org>

James,

Good catch.  The comment by "zcorpan" [1] gets to the crux of the 
matter, namely, that this is due to sgml.  In particular, dashes within 
a comment  *are* allowed as long as there are the right number of them.  
There must be pairs of double dashes:

<!-- this is -- -- ok -->

<!-- this is not -- ok -->

My guess is that adding two more dashes to the relevant comments in the 
style guide will solve the problem.  For example, replace:

<!-- DIALOG NON-MODAL 
----------------------------------------------------------------->

with:

<!-- DIALOG NON-MODAL 
------------------------------------------------------------------->

[1] 
http://weblog.200ok.com.au/2008/01/dashing-into-trouble-why-html-comments.html#comment-4302594122543403853

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