- From: Murray Altheim <murray@spyglass.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 17:42:32 -0500
- To: galactus@htmlhelp.com (Arnoud "Galactus" Engelfriet)
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
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>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?
The latter. Check also
http://www.stonehand.com/doc/comments.html
Murray
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Murray Altheim, Program Manager
Spyglass, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts
email: <mailto:murray@spyglass.com>
http: <http://www.stonehand.com/murray/murray.html>
"Give a monkey the tools and he'll eventually build a typewriter."
Received on Thursday, 19 September 1996 17:39:25 UTC