- From: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:15:17 +0000
- To: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- CC: bkml <atoz0to9@fastmail.fm>, www-validator@w3.org
I seem able to replicate this : 110 dashes OK, 120 bad, end must match beginning. See http://training.rhul.ac.uk/Comments-1.html (-2.html, -3.html) The first has 120 + 120, the second 110 + 120 and the third 110 + 110. Philip Taylor -------- David Dorward wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 06:55:58PM +0900, bkml wrote: > > > If line 1 of the comment exceeds 110 dashes, the validator reports > > the 111th dash as an error. > > You didn't state what error you were getting, but I can't get the > validator to anything that I find unexpected. However, dealing with > dashes inside comments is a pain, I suggest taking the advice of the > specification: > > "Authors should avoid putting two or more adjacent hyphens inside > comments." > > http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.2.4 > > > What's weirder than that is the fact that the closing line (line 3) > > has to have exactly the same number of dashes as the opening line or > > else the validator reports an error in whichever line follows. > > I can't reproduce this. My tests show it just has to close an opened > comment. So <!------ foo --> is valid (but <!------ foo ----> never > closes the final comment). > > -- > David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk >
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