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Ron Bourret writes: > Section 2.5, "Comments", states that "For compatibility, the string "--" > (double-hyphen) must not occur within comments." > > I figured that this meant the spec authors were not totally happy > with this restriction, but they added it for SGML compatibility > reasons and that "--" really was not allowed in comments. However, > both MSXML and Aelfred allow it. XP does not. > Who is correct? Does "for compatibility" mean the parser is not > required to support this if it is not interested in SGML > compatibility? Is this something special about comments? XP is correct. This constraint is built directly into the grammatical production: [15] Comment ::= '<!--' ((Char - '-') | ('-' (Char - '-')))* '-->' All the best, David -- David Megginson david@m... http://www.megginson.com/ xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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