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[Scott <catfather AT donpoo.net>]

A few more comments (pun intended) on this subject ...

On Dec 12, 2005, at 10:54 AM, Steven Champeon wrote:
> on Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 01:31:34AM -0500, Scott wrote:
> > About comment tags, from memory:
> >
> > <!-- this is valid, notice the spaces -->
> > <!--------this isn't valid as it's missing the space after the open
> > tag and before the closing tag--------->
>
> Nah, it's got nothing to do with the spaces.

eh? I thought a properly formed xhtml comment was <!-- blah --> where  
as the space was
required after the double dashes in the opening and prior to the  
double dashes in the closing. (Let it be known that the words "I  
thought" should be read as "I'm to lazy to go look up the xhtml spec  
right now")

> SGML comments are actually
> delimited by "--", the <!> is just a "null tag" - no element  
> identifier -
> and HTML comments are the same way, but to varying degrees of  
> strictness
> depending on what browser you're dealing with. In SGML,

To varying degrees of strictness is an understatement. Without making  
any comments (I'm killing myself!) on the correctness of the authors  
interpretation of the xhtml spec, check out http:// 
www.howtocreate.co.uk/SGMLComments.html which has a whole mess of  
various browser tests for well formed and no so well formed xhtml  
comments. A quick check of Firefox 1.5 and Safari 2.0.2 shows some  
significant differences in the rendering.

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Scott <catfather AT donpoo.net>
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