Re: [whatwg] Parsing: comment tokenization

[Kornel Lesinski]

On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 13:27:14 +0100, Nicholas Shanks  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

2) A double HYPHEN-MINUS delimits comments within tags, this provides
compatibility with XML and SGML and changing this needlessly in HTML5
will just complicate conversion.

HTML5 is not an application of SGML and I think it has been proven by now  
that it doesn't make sense to keep pretending it is (see story about SGML  
comment in Acid2).

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regards, Kornel Lesiński