Re: Comment delimiters

lee@sq.com
Tue, 15 Nov 94 13:39:45 EST

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> According to section 3.4.6, white space is allowed between the closing --
> and > of a comment.
>
> Is this correct?

Yes -- this is how SGML comments work.
It's not worth being more restrictive here -- SGML tools may not
even offer the user control over whether there is whitespace there or not.

Lee

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