On Jan 23, 2006, at 05:23, Ian Hickson wrote:
Probably the same as XML. Or maybe just "<!--" followed by zero or
more
characters other than U+0000, followed by "-->".
Of those two choices, I prefer the former. I don't like the idea of
expanding the set of conforming comments, because I think having
conforming comments should maximize the backwards-compatibility of
the comments (and there are browsers in the wild that implement SGML-
style comments, which is incompatible with the latter alternative
above).
I think allowing paired double hyphens with whitespace in between and
allowing whitespace between the ending "--" and ">" would make sense.
This would improve the source-level upgradeability of valid HTML 4 to
conforming HTML 5. However, it would have the old confusion issues.
<!-- I think this should be conforming. -->
<!-- Making -- -- this conforming would make sense as well. -- >
<!-- IMO, this -- should not be conforming but should parse
unambiguously with an easy parse error. -->
--
Henri Sivonen
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