On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:40:04 +0100, Roan Kattouw wrote:

> 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)

This doesn't seem scary, but I really should read the new preprocessor
more thoroughly.  Anyway, it seems like both 
<!--<nowiki>-->''text''<!--</nowiki>-->

and

<nowiki><!-- comment --></nowiki>

work properly, so nesting and comments doesn't seem to be much of an issue.



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