- From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:26:02 +0000
- To: www-validator@w3.org
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 08:17:16PM -0000, Rui del-Negro wrote: > While I agree that there's little or no reason these days to comment-out > code, I don't think it makes much sense to assume that a comment has ended > just because a "--i" sequence is encountered. Last time I checked, "i" is > not the character used to close tags. Comments, like Doctypes, aren't tags. > Does this mean the "--" sequence cannot exist inside comments? Yes. > This seems like either a bug in the validator or a "bug" in the way the > comment closing tag is defined. Take it up with the people who designed SGML (which is now over 20 years old). -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk
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