- From: Justin Wood <jw6057@bacon.qcc.mass.edu>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 15:02:47 -0400
- To: www-html-editor@w3.org
Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: >Dear HTML Working Group, > > Appendix C.4 of the XHTML 1.0 Second Edition Recommendation states > >[...] > Use external style sheets if your style sheet uses < or & or ]]> or > --. Use external scripts if your script uses < or & or ]]> or --. >[...] > >I do not understand what the problem with -- in those elements is, as >far as I can tell, there is no difference for e.g. > > <style ...>/*--*/</style> > >or > > <p style="/*--*/">...</p> > >in HTML versus XHTML, the specification seems thus in error in this >regard. > >regards. > > > > iirc, script and style assumes <!-- ... --> comment syntax, which means that -- in a proper SGML (XML) parser, would mark the rest of the tag bad (comment closes at -- not the > technically, with everything between discarded). ~Justin Wood
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