- From: David G. Durand <dgd@cs.bu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 22:53:03 -0400
- To: W3C-SGML-WG@w3.org
I'm sorry that we are trying to disallow "--" in comments. No browser vendor has implemented the standard correctly in this regard, because it is too unnatural to fly in the internet. Some of us -- I am one! -- are addicted to em-dashes. This will be a common (and intentional) mis-implemented feature of XML. --> should be the only string to terminate a comment and the end of it. In XML the distinction is particularly unmotivated because we don't even have the (bad) syntactic justification of multiple comments. We are requiring every XML processor to implement special code to barf on user input -- where it causes no parsing or semantic ambiguity. People on the internet at large already think SGML is stupid. We need not feed their misconceptions. -- David RE delenda est. _________________________________________ David Durand dgd@cs.bu.edu \ david@dynamicDiagrams.com Boston University Computer Science \ Sr. Analyst http://www.cs.bu.edu/students/grads/dgd/ \ Dynamic Diagrams --------------------------------------------\ http://dynamicDiagrams.com/ MAPA: mapping for the WWW \__________________________ http://www.dynamicdiagrams.com/services_map_main.html
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