Possible bug in handling of HTML comments

[Fletcher T. Penney]

It appears that Markdown will process ampersands contained within HTML comments if that comment is part of a markdown paragraph, but will not when that paragraph is contained within an HTML block of it's own (and therefore ignored by Markdown.)

For example:



<p><!-- This & will *not* be converted --></p>







Thanks for any insight, and ideas on how to fix this!


Fletcher Penney


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This is a markdown paragraph with a comment that *will* be processed <!-- This & *will* be converted --> It seems to me that the & within a comment should be ignored by Markdown and not converted to &amp; The reason this is important for me, is that I am experimenting with using HTML comments as a means to pass text that should be ignored by MultiMarkdown (e.g. to allow raw LaTeX, etc). But some of the comments *are* being processed, which screws them up.

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