Simple(?) question on obscure comments detail

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First tried to ask on www-talk, but unfortunately no one could offer
an authoritative answer yet there..

RFC 1866 defines an HTML comment tag as "<!" followed by 0 or more
comments followed by ">". A comment is defined as "anything but
the '--' sequence, enclosed in '--'". Now, is the following tag
a valid comment?

<!-- hello--->

Should a parser accept the first '-' of the three as part of the
contents, or should it barf on the "->" stuff outside the first
comment?

Galactus

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Received on Thursday, 19 September 1996 16:34:21 UTC