Re: comment nodes from Joseph Kesselman/Watson/IBM on 2000-09-22 (www-dom@w3.org from July to September 2000)

From: Joseph Kesselman/Watson/IBM <keshlam@us.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 10:07:33 -0400
Cc: www-dom@w3.org
Message-ID: <OF6EB2A011.459BA838-ON85256962.004D44F9@pok.ibm.com>

>Is it legal for a comment node to be created or modified to contain the
>string '-->' in it?

As far as the DOM is concerned, yes. It's the serializer's responsibility
to do something appropriate with it -- complain, or change the > into &gt;,
or whatever seems reasonable -- and/or your application's responsibility
not to create this situation in the first place.

We expect DOM Level 3 will add the ability to request a well-formedness
check, which will report this sort of thing.

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Joe Kesselman  / IBM Research

Received on Friday, 22 September 2000 10:34:12 UTC