Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> I don't think so. Actually the rules for SGML "comments" are > somewhat different. Georg, I think we're talking about apples and oranges here. I'm talking about what is legitimate in a comment in an SGML document. I think you're talking about what is legitimate as a comment in an SGML declaration. At any rate, I decided to do some more poking around. I wrote a web page (see http://www.exelana.com/comments.html) with the following variations on comments: <!-- Comment --> <!-- -- --> <!> <!--------> The browsers I tried (Internet Explorer, Mozilla, and Lynx) ignore all of them. I also tried the W3C Markup Validation Service at http://validator.w3.org/ It reported that the last one is not valid: Line 22 column 8: comment started here <!--------> http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.exelana.com%2Fcomments.html&doctype=HTML+2.0&charset=us-ascii+%28basic+English%29 The moral of the story: one cannot evaluate an HTML document solely on what any browser (or even all of them) do with it. Tony
