- From: Arnoud <galactus@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 20:54:10 +0200
- To: www-talk@w3.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In article <828.9609180920@strachey.ecs.soton.ac.uk>, S.N.Brodie@ecs.soton.ac.uk wrote: > My impression is that this is not a correctly terminated comment, since > it does not fit the strict definition given in RFC1866. However, > that's irrelevant, as all 3 browsers I've tried it on accept it. I suppose these browsers simply consider "<!--" the comment starting tag and "-->" the corresponding closing tag. My favourite way to demonstrate that is the following *legal* comment: <!-- -- --> --> That's two comments, one of which only contains " " and one contains "> ". Anyway, as far as I can see RFC 1866 does not discuss the "-" character as last character before "--" explicitly. It only states (section 3.2.5) Each comment starts with `--' and includes all text up to and including the next occurrence of `--'. I'm just confused if the sequence "---" _should_ be seen as "-" followed by "--" or as "--" followed by "-". Galactus - -- E-mail: galactus@htmlhelp.com .................... PGP Key: 512/63B0E665 Maintainer of WDG's HTML reference: <http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/> -----END PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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