Okay, I've added the capability to use stuff like ! in conditional 
comments in the master branch.

Jarrod Spillers wrote:
> Ahhh... I didn't consider that use... but you are right - that 
> wouldn't validate at all
>
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Nathan Weizenbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
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>     Jarrod is right. Microsoft does support "downlevel-revealed"
>     conditionals
>     
> (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537512%28VS.85%29.aspx#dlrevealed),
>     which is the only case in which [if !IE] would work. These are of
>     the form
>
>     <![if !IE]> stuff <![endif]>
>
>     which is, of course, invalid XHTML.
>
>
>     On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Jarrod Spillers
>     <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>
>         The problem i see with that is the fact that Internet explorer
>         is the only line of browsers that understand the conditional
>         comments...
>
>         if its not IE then it doesn't even understand the conditional
>         comment
>
>         /[if !IE 6] would apply to IE 5, 7 etc... but just /[if !IE]
>         would never be evaluated true by any browser, ever.
>
>         - Jarrod
>
>
>         On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Evgeny
>         <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>
>             Sorry, but I did not understant what you said. What is a
>             downlevel-revealed-conditional-comment ? :)
>
>             The conditional comments I am talking about are the ones
>             defined by M$ :
>             <!--[if !IE]--> ... <![endif]--> is how it looks like in
>             plain html.
>
>             The article on M$ is at :
>             http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537512(VS.85).aspx
>             
> <http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537512%28VS.85%29.aspx> 
>             and you can clearly see that IE supports "The NOT operator".
>
>             AFAIK Haml generates these conditional comments, and
>             should not really think they are nested ... for example in
>             HAML
>
>               /[if lte IE 6]
>                 sometext
>
>             will make a block in html that looks like this:
>               <!--[if lte IE 6]>
>                 sometext
>               <![endif]-->
>
>             Why should /[if !IE] break?
>
>
>             On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Nathan Weizenbaum
>             <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>
>
>                 Haml doesn't (and won't) support generating
>                 downlevel-revealed
>                 conditional comments. Thus "/[if !IE]" won't be
>                 useful; no browser will
>                 respect it.
>
>                 That said, it should at least generate something. I'll
>                 fix it some time
>                 today.
>
>                 - Nathan
>
>                 Evgeny wrote:
>                 > I am trying to use an IE conditional comment, with
>                 Haml syntax - but
>                 > get an error (haml 1.8.2)
>                 >
>                 > !!!
>                 > %html
>                 >   %body
>                 >   /[if !IE]
>                 >     You are not in IE
>                 >   /[if IE]
>                 >     You are in IE
>                 >
>                 > Syntax error on line 4: Illegal Nesting: Nesting
>                 within a tag that
>                 > already has content is illegal.
>                 >
>                 >
>                 > It's a valid conditional for "if not IE", but it
>                 does not work in haml
>                 > ....
>                 >
>                 >
>                 > fix please?
>                 >
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