- From: David Håsäther <hasather@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 23:11:38 +0100
- To: Rui del-Negro <w3validator@dvd-hq.info>
- CC: www-validator@w3.org
On 2007-01-23 22:47, Rui del-Negro wrote:
> Making such a common character sequence (--), which is often used as
> an ASCII alternative to a "long dash", illegal inside comments
> definitely doesn't help.
The reason for this is that in SGML, a comment _declaration_ can contain
more than one comment (actually, zero or more).
Example:
<!-- inside the first comment --
-- inside the second comment -->
--
David Håsäther
Received on Tuesday, 23 January 2007 22:11:52 UTC