Re: comment nodes

Joseph Kesselman/Watson/IBM wrote:

> Good point. But consider
>      <!-- &#45;&#45;-->
> ... I'm honestly not sure when character references get processed, so I'm
> not sure whether that comes through as written, as --, or gets caught as a
> syntax error. I would be surprised if it's the latter.

It's well-formed; the only sequences that matter in a comment are "--" (illegal)
and "-->" (terminator).  All other characters are so much junk.

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Received on Friday, 22 September 2000 16:37:52 UTC