Simple(?) question on obscure comments detail
Arnoud (galactus@htmlhelp.com)
Thu, 19 Sep 1996 22:29:05 +0200
From: galactus@htmlhelp.com (Arnoud "Galactus" Engelfriet)
To: www-html@w3.org
Subject: Simple(?) question on obscure comments detail
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 22:29:05 +0200
Message-ID: <R0aQy4uYOp3G089yn@htmlhelp.com>
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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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