Re: HTML 3.2 PR
Carl Morris (msftrncs@htcnet.com)
Fri, 15 Nov 1996 19:58:56 -0600
Message-Id: <199611160200.UAA17365@inet.htcnet.com>
From: "Carl Morris" <msftrncs@htcnet.com>
To: "WWW HTML List" <www-html@w3.org>
Subject: Re: HTML 3.2 PR
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 19:58:56 -0600
| 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...