- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:38:45 +0200
On Jan 23, 2006, at 05:23, Ian Hickson wrote: > Probably the same as XML. Or maybe just "<!--" followed by zero or > more > characters other than U+0000, followed by "-->". Of those two choices, I prefer the former. I don't like the idea of expanding the set of conforming comments, because I think having conforming comments should maximize the backwards-compatibility of the comments (and there are browsers in the wild that implement SGML- style comments, which is incompatible with the latter alternative above). I think allowing paired double hyphens with whitespace in between and allowing whitespace between the ending "--" and ">" would make sense. This would improve the source-level upgradeability of valid HTML 4 to conforming HTML 5. However, it would have the old confusion issues. <!-- I think this should be conforming. --> <!-- Making -- -- this conforming would make sense as well. -- > <!-- IMO, this -- should not be conforming but should parse unambiguously with an easy parse error. --> -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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