[whatwg] [html5] bogus comment state

Lachlan Hunt lachlan.hunt at lachy.id.au
Thu Jan 5 05:53:52 PST 2006


Alexey Feldgendler wrote:
> To me, it seems reasonable to drop invalid constructs like <? test>.

That's not an invalid construct in HTML4, it's a perfectly valid SGML 
processing instruction (it would not be well-formed in XML, however). 
It's just not at all well supported and has no defined meaning so it 
seems that something sensible will need to be defined for handling it in 
HTML5.

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Lachlan Hunt
http://lachy.id.au/




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