Re: W3C HTML validator is broken

On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 06:55:58PM +0900, bkml wrote:

> If line 1 of the comment exceeds 110 dashes, the validator reports  
> the 111th dash as an error.

You didn't state what error you were getting, but I can't get the
validator to anything that I find unexpected. However, dealing with
dashes inside comments is a pain, I suggest taking the advice of the
specification:

    "Authors should avoid putting two or more adjacent hyphens inside
     comments."

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.2.4
 
> What's weirder than that is the fact that the closing line (line 3)  
> has to have exactly the same number of dashes as the opening line or  
> else the validator reports an error in whichever line follows.

I can't reproduce this. My tests show it just has to close an opened
comment. So <!------ foo --> is valid (but <!------ foo ----> never
closes the final comment).

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David Dorward                                      http://dorward.me.uk