[Bug 2440] Comments not properly handled

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=2440

           Summary: Comments not properly handled
           Product: Validator
           Version: HEAD
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows XP
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Parser
        AssignedTo: link@pobox.com
        ReportedBy: edmulroy@yahoo.com
         QAContact: www-validator-cvs@w3.org


This gives an error: 

==============================
<tr>
  <td><a href="http://www.faa.gov/pilots/training/">Training</a></td>
</tr>
<!-- 
<tr>
  <td class="note" colspan="2">---Manuals---</td>
</tr>
==============================

I believe that it is incorrectly handling a comment. 


The error text is: 

==============================
Below are the results of attempting to parse this document with an SGML 
parser. 

Error Line 183 column 33: invalid comment declaration: found name character 
outside comment but inside comment declaration.
  <td class="note" colspan="2">---Manuals---</td>
 

Info Line 181 column 0: comment declaration started here.
<!-- 
Error Line 183 column 34: character data is not allowed here.
  <td class="note" colspan="2">---Manuals---</td>
You have used character data somewhere it is not permitted to appear. Mistakes 
that can cause this error include putting text directly in the body of the 
document without wrapping it in a container element (such as a 
<p>aragraph</p>) 
or forgetting to quote an attribute value (where characters such as "%" 
and "/" 
are common, but cannot appear without surrounding quotes). 

---More errors follow such as complaints about the ending </td>
==============================

The file being parsed is HTML 4.01 Transitional.

Received on Thursday, 3 November 2005 19:26:17 UTC