- From: David Håsäther <hasather@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:29:43 +0100
- To: Rui del-Negro <w3validator@dvd-hq.info>
- CC: www-validator@w3.org
On 2007-01-23 21:17, 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.
No, but in SGML the string "--" ends a comment inside a comment
declaration. XML also disallows "--" for compatibility reasons.
> Does this mean the "--" sequence cannot exist inside comments?
Yes, see the production for a comment:
[15] Comment ::= '<!--' ((Char - '-') | ('-' (Char - '-')))* '-->'
--
David Håsäther
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