- From: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:31:07 +0000
- To: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- CC: bkml <atoz0to9@fastmail.fm>, www-validator@w3.org, David Håsäther <hasather@gmail.com>
David Dorward wrote: > > 110 dashes OK, > > 54 empty comments, followed by a comment start, followed by the text > "A comment" followed by a comment end, followed by 54 empty comments. > > This should be fine. > > > 120 bad > > 60 empty comments, followed by the text "A comment" outside of any > comment, followed by 60 empty comments. > > This should throw an error. David Håsäther wrote: > That's because after 110 dashes you are inside the comment. > If you try to include text after 120 dashes, you are outside the > comment, and character data cannot appear inside a comment _declaration_. > > -- > David Håsäther > Confused. Are we now saying that n mod 4 is what is significant, not n mod 2 ? ** Phil.
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