Thanks. I am happy to read this. But if I wanted to do this how
could it be described in grammar ?
John
> > What is the best approach to writing a grammar for comments in
HTML
> > that permits you to add comments in it ? eg :
> >
> > <!-- <!-- Comment --> -->
>
> FYI: this is not actually allowed with HTML comments; they cannot be
> nested. The "outer" comment ends with the *first* "-->".
>
> Excerpt from http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/intro/sgmltut.html#h-
3.2.4:
>
> 3.2.4 Comments
>
> HTML comments have the following syntax:
>
> <!-- this is a comment -->
> <!-- and so is this one,
> which occupies more than one line -->
>
> White space is not permitted between the markup declaration
open
> delimiter("<!") and the comment open delimiter ("--"), but
is
> permitted between the comment close delimiter ("--") and the
> markup declaration close delimiter (">"). A common error is
to
> include a string of hyphens ("---") within a comment.
Authors
> should avoid putting two or more adjacent hyphens inside
> comments.
>
> Information that appears between comments has no special
meaning
> (e.g., character references are not interpreted as such).
>
> Note that comments are markup.
>
> -md
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