- From: Carl Morris <msftrncs@htcnet.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 19:58:56 -0600
- To: "WWW HTML List" <www-html@w3.org>
| I am going to pick on people with this: | | <! is a comment in HTML > | | <! -- this is a comment in SGML -- > | | Why? An HTML parser has no business trying to figure out SGML, an SGML | parser being used on an HTML document on the other hand may have use | for the declaration. It needs to be described this way. Calling <! > | not an HTML comment is misleading to those people who have no use for However, it should be suggested that <! > is an HTML comment to an HTML parser, but <!-- --> is a comment to an HTML author... However there are still problems with this because supposedly, SGML allows using > within the mess without requiring it be escaped, but I am not an expert in SGML, I just know enough to try and write a HTML parser with some rules...
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