- From: Christian Smith <csmith@barebones.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 07:05:43 -0500
- To: www-validator@w3.org
- cc: Olaf Buddenhagen <olafbuddenhagen@gmx.net>
On 03/14/02 at 17:20, olafbuddenhagen@gmx.net (Olaf Buddenhagen) wrote:
> The HTML 4.01 standard says:
>
> A common error is to include a string of hyphens ("---") within a
> comment. Authors should avoid putting two or more adjacent hyphens
> inside comments.
>
> (Section 3, "SGML and HTML)
>
> However, the validator doesn't complain about constructs like:
>
> <!-------------->
I'm fairly certain that if you use that exact comment in an
HTML document the validator will complain since the comment
never terminates.
> in HTML mode. Now I wonder: *Is* that allowed, or is it not?...
It is allowed if you are careful and ensure that you use
multiples of 4 hyphens and only put content in between
matched pairs.
<---- --this is valid-- ---->
<----this is not---->
Received on Thursday, 21 March 2002 07:05:44 UTC