On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Phil Hobson wrote: > Line 181, column 127: invalid comment declaration: found > character "?" outside comment but inside comment declaration > > ....n at tinyonline.co.uk> 18-may 2001 --? It's not obvious what happened (in the absence of a URL), but presumably there was a construct <!-- somewhere so that we are inside a comment declaration, and a comment was terminated by the "--", and then the following "?" is indeed an error. > "A common error is to include a string of hyphens ("---") within > a comment. Authors should avoid putting two or more adjacent > hyphens inside comments." It is not _possible_ to include "---" or even "--" within a comment, since "--" is a comment terminator. Inside a comment declaration, on the other hand, "---" is correct in suitable circumstances, if immediately followed by yet another "-": <!--foo----bar--> My suggestion of the wording: "A common error is to try to use two or more adjacent hyphens in a comment text, as in <!-- hello -- there! -->. In this case, the second "--" terminates a comment." -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/Received on Friday, 1 April 2005 07:07:06 UTC
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