[thelist] HTML Comments and Double Hyphens on Netscape 6.1 an d 6.2

[Burhan Khalid]

I believe if you use the following :

//<![CDATA[

	Text

//]]>

It will validate and will create comments.

--Burhan

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> [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Judah McAuley
> Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 5:11 PM
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> Subject: Re: [thelist] HTML Comments and Double Hyphens on
> Netscape 6.1 an d 6.2
>
>
> Ray Hill wrote:
> >>"White space is not permitted between the markup declaration
> >>open delimiter("<!") and the comment open delimiter ("--"),
> >>but is permitted between the comment close delimiter ("--")
> >>and the markup declaration close delimiter (">").
> >
> >
> > Interesting.  But by that rule, it would interpret:
> >
> >    <!-- Header Table -- Begin -->
> >
> > as:
> >
> >    <!-- Header Table --> Begin -->
> >
> > which would theoretically print
> >
> >    Begin --> to the screen.
>
> I think thats a misreading of the standard.  All the standard says is
> that whitespace is permitted between the -- and the > character at the
> end of the comment.  The string " Begin --" counts as
> whitespace because
> there is a space followed some time later by the actual end character
> "<".  So the spec says the "-- somegarbagehere>" is functionally
> equivalent to "-- >" which is functionally equivalent to "-->".  The
> comment is not considered closed until the markup declaration close
> delimiter (">") is found.
>
> Its not completely clear to me, however, whether
> "--thisistextwithoutaspace>" would count as an end comment
> since it does
> not contain whitespace.  I suspect that it would not be valid, but I'm
> not sure.
>
> Judah
>
>
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