[whatwg] parsing: bogus comments - PIs

[Shadow2531]

On 7/18/06, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Shadow2531 wrote:
> >
> > <? is a parse error and causes a switch to the bogus comment state.
> >
> > So, <?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href=""?> is a bogus comment.
> > <http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#bogus>
> >
> > "Emit a comment token whose data is the concatenation of all the
> > characters from the character that caused the state machine to switch
> > into the bogus comment state, up to the last consumed character before
> > the U+003E character..."
> >
> > I *was* 100% sure that the PI should be parsed into:
> >
> > <!--?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href=""?-->
>
> Correct.

Thanks.

> > However, after rereading that section a few more times, I'm not 100%
> > sure whether the 2 ? are included in the concatenation or not?
> >
> > I know it says from ? up to ?, but I might be interpreting 'from' and
> > 'up to'  incorrectly.
> >
> > Can someone clarify?
>
> I've tried to clarify the spec. Let me know if it's still ambiguous.

There we go. That helps big time.

Thanks

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