Re: Simple(?) question on obscure comments detail

% From: galactus@htmlhelp.com (Arnoud "Galactus" Engelfriet)
% 
% First tried to ask on www-talk, but unfortunately no one could offer
% an authoritative answer yet there..
% 
% RFC 1866 defines an HTML comment tag as "<!" followed by 0 or more
% comments followed by ">". A comment is defined as "anything but
% the '--' sequence, enclosed in '--'". Now, is the following tag
% a valid comment?
% 
% <!-- hello--->
% 
% Should a parser accept the first '-' of the three as part of the
% contents, or should it barf on the "->" stuff outside the first
% comment?

A parser should give you an error on the "->" stuff after the 
first comment.

% Galactus
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Lauren

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Lauren Wood, SoftQuad, Inc.

Lauren

Received on Thursday, 19 September 1996 17:20:31 UTC