On Jan 23, 2006, at 10:38, Henri Sivonen wrote:
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. -->
And then it would be necessary to make this one non-conforming:
<!-- In comment -- -- > Not in HTML 5 comment but in SGML comment -->
I guess the XML style is the simplest thing that could work. :-/
--
Henri Sivonen
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