- From: Anne van Kesteren <fora@annevankesteren.nl>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:39:28 +0100
Quoting Henri Sivonen <hsivonen at iki.fi>: >> 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. --> > > And then it would be necessary to make this one non-conforming: > <!-- In comment -- -- > Not in HTML 5 comment but in SGML comment --> > > I guess the XML style is the simplest thing that could work. :-/ You are talking about conformance, but what do you want the parser to do? And also there is talk about whitespace between -- and > but currently all kinds of chracters are allowed there (including - for instance). -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/>
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