[TxMt] Weird HTML Comment Issue?

[Eric Coleman]

Thanks Allan,

It's not my source code, or i'd have fixed them all by now... guy I  
work with, but thanks for the information.

Eric Coleman



On May 5, 2006, at 11:16 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:

> On 6/5/2006, at 4:55, Eric Coleman wrote:
>
>> I've noticed that the HTML comments are slightly restrictive.
>
> Indeed they are :)
>
>> If I have the following code: [...] <!--- order now ---> [...] it  
>> will highlight everything from the start of the comment, to the  
>> end of the page.  How do I fix that without going through all the  
>> flies to fix the comments?
>
> From the HTML standard chapter 3.2.4:
>
>    [...] A common error is to include a string of
>    hyphens ("---") within a comment. Authors should
>    avoid putting two or more adjacent hyphens inside
>    comments.
>
> So I would suggest fixing your comments (search’n’replace). While  
> the HTML standard doesn’t explicitly say it (anymore, I think it  
> did in the past), HTML comments come from SGML, and here ‘--’  
> changes state in the parser. So your last ‘--->’ is (if this was a  
> strict parser) seen as ‘--’, which goes into a mode where it  
> expects whitespace or a ‘>’ (to terminate the comment), but instead  
> it finds another dash (‘-’).
>
>
>
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