- From: Stephanos Piperoglou <spip@hol.gr>
- Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 20:37:45 +0300 (EET DST)
- To: Murray Altheim <murray@spyglass.com>
- cc: Arnoud Galactus Engelfriet <galactus@htmlhelp.com>, www-html@w3.org
On Fri, 20 Sep 1996, Murray Altheim wrote:
> The parser is scanning forward for the next instance of COM, not for the
> next instance of "-->", which has no singular significance in a comment
> declaration; it is simply the concatenation of a COM and MDC (">"); that's
> why parsers that look for "-->" are making an error. It is perfectly
> SGML-legal to write a comment declaration such as:
>
> <!-- hello --
> >
Let me see if I (who knows nothing of SGML) can get this straight:
<! > is an HTML element that stands for an SGML declaration
-- some text -- is an SGML comment
Hence any whitespace is allowed between <! and the comment, as is between
the comment and >, according to what I know of HTML.
Is this correct?
--
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