Re: Tidy converts "--" in comments...

On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:20:42 +0100, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
wrote:

>>I am running tidy.exe for windows dated 22 March 2008.
>>
>>I have "fix-bad-comments: no" in the cfg file. But tidy converts "--" in
>>comments to "-=".
>>
>>I would like tidy to leave these alone. What am I doing wrong?
>
>In XHTML documents, comments are not allowed to contain "--". In HTML
>documents, the situation is essentially the same, but for slightly
>different reasons than in XHTML. I don't think there is an option for
>Tidy to leave this error in the document.

Thanks for the reply.

The reason I asked is that these comments actually contain valid HTML
that I may wish to uncomment in the future. I would prefer that tidy did
not muck with this.

I can work around it...

-- 

Dennis

Received on Monday, 1 March 2010 12:00:23 UTC