[whatwg] text/html conformance checkers and comments

[Ian Hickson]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Lachlan Hunt wrote:
>
> But you missed two other valid variants that I can think of:
> 
> <!>

Empty bogus comment "", parse error.


> <!-- -- >

Unterminated comment " -- >". Two parse errors.


> As useless as the first one may be, it seems to be supported with no 
> ill-effect by Deer Park Alpha 2, Opera 8 and IE6, so I see no reason to 
> call it invalid.

I don't really see any reason to call it valid either. :-)


> And these invalid variants:
> <! -- -->

Bogus comment " -- --". Parse error.


> <!-- foo -- bar -->

Comment " foo -- bar ". Parse error.

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