Tags within comment blocks visible to validator

The following document does not validate because the <HTML> tag within 
the comment
block is seen by the parser!

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd">
<HTML>
  <Head>
   <!-- Hide stuff

This tag should not be seen! <HTML>

   // End hiding. -->
  </Head>
  <Body>
  This page does not validate!
  </Body>
</HTML>

Received on Tuesday, 11 September 2001 10:00:36 UTC