[whatwg] text/html conformance checkers and comments

• From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
• Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 00:08:51 +0000 (UTC)
• Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0602250007190.315@dhalsim.dreamhost.com>

On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Henri Sivonen wrote:
>
> What kinds of comments should a text/html HTML5 conformance checker allow?
> 
> <!-->

Unterminated comment ">". Parse error.

> <!---->

Empty comment "".

> <!-- -->

Comment " ".

> <!-- foo -->

Comment " foo ".

> <!-- foo ---- bar -->

Comment " foo ---- bar ". Parse error.

> <!-- foo -- -- bar -->

Comment " foo -- -- bar ". Parse error.

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