- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 04:11:22 -0500
- To: "Carl Morris" <msftrncs@htcnet.com>, www-html@w3.org
At 09:15 PM 11/15/96 -0600, Carl Morris wrote: >| >| HTML *is* SGML. <! > is *not* a comment. HTML user agents *do* use >| information in <! >. Those that validate documents, for instance, >will look >| at the DOCTYPE to determine which version of HTML to validate >against. > >Those are not HTML parsers, they are SGML parsers ... see a later post >coming from me in the list... I have defined these terms as I use >them. No, they are not SGML parsers, because they cannot parse non-HTML DTDs. They are *validating* HTML parseres >Saying "<! >" is not a comment is true... but you have not said where >it is not a comment... It is never a comment. Some user agents skip it, but that doesn't make it a comment. >it is comment, my HTML parser skips right over >the whole construct. That's fine. You do not have a *validating* HTML parser. You have a non-validating HTML parser. Paul Prescod --- Boycott Shell Oil worldwide! http://www.web.apc.org/embargo/shell.htm "Shell is here on trial and it is as well that it is represented by counsel said to be holding a watching brief."..."The ecological war that the Company has waged in the Delta will be called to question sooner than later." -Ken Saro-Wiwa to the tribunal that later executed him. http://www.goldmanprize.org/goldman/ken.html
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