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Joe Forrest <curiousmejf@y...> wrote: | [15] Comment ::= '<!--' ((Char - '-') | ('-' (Char - '-')))* '-->' | comments cannot allow "--" in the content. | | What then on the earth is the meaning of: "For compatibility, the | string "--" (double-hyphen) must not occur within comments" This is to ensure that comment syntax in XML - which is a considerable simplification - remains consistent with SGML syntax. See, e.g. [91] and [92] here (by default, MDO is '<!', MDC is '>' and COM is '--'): http://www.oreilly.com/people/staff/crism/sgmldefs.html#[91] SGML allows *multiple* comments within a single comment declaration, each comment delimited by a pair of double-hyphens. For the full syntax in plain English, see e.g., Section 3.2.5 in RFC 1866: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1866.html
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