- From: Daniel W. Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 18:13:57 -0400
- To: galactus@htmlhelp.com (Arnoud "Galactus" Engelfriet)
- cc: www-html@w3.org
In message <R0aQy4uYOp3G089yn@htmlhelp.com>, Arnoud "Galactus" Engelfriet write s: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >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? As other folks said, that's not a legal comment. But it _does_ match the description you gave! So RFC1866 is wrong! Er wait... youre paraphrase is incorrect. The actual text is: ========= http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_3.html#SEC3.2.5 A comment declaration consists of `<!' followed by zero or more comments followed by `>'. Each comment starts with `--' and includes all text up to and including the next occurrence of `--'. ========= Dan
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