Re: Comment Declarations

Daniel W. Connolly (connolly@beach.w3.org)
Mon, 15 May 95 17:17:23 EDT

In message <9505120815.AA23349@trubetzkoy.stonehand.com>, Glenn Adams writes:
>
>Is it possible to correct the specification of comment declarations
>in 2.0 so that it matches ISO 8879?

Yes.

>The current text of the 2.0 spec says:
>
>all text up to the next occurrence of `-->' is ignored.
>This is not a completely accurate description of the SGML comment declaration,
>which is found in 10.3:

Good catch.

I've written several explanations of this, but none of which is
both consistent with ISO8879 and comprehensible.

Would you care to give it a whirl?

Dan