Steve Sanbeg schreef:
> On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:53:15 +0100, Platonides wrote:
>
>   
>> Roan Kattouw wrote:
>>     
>>> That would be significantly harder to implement, and also potentially 
>>> confusing. Writing an extension that implements <comment></comment> is 
>>> ridiculously easy, whereas introducing new syntax of another kind would 
>>> be very hard on pretty much everyone whose name isn't Tim Starling :)
>>>
>>> Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
>>>       
>> Agree. Much better to add a <htmlcomment> and changing it to a shorter 
>> name if needed would be trivial.
>>
>> Now, some implementation details:
>> What to with a --> inside a html comment? And -- ?
>>     
>
> Well, <source lang=html4strict><!-- comment --></source> seems to work
> like I'd expect, so the normal extension handling should get it right. 
> Strip <comment>, remove <!-- .. -->, unstrip <comment>
Hmm, that's starting to sound scary. Doesn't <nowiki><!-- comment 
--></nowiki> work? If it doesn't, we could ask Tim to make it work 
(shouldn't be too hard).

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

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