Re: HTML+ has no <!-- comments? -->

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From: Dave_Raggett <dsr@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Message-id: <9312011547.AA15374@manuel.hpl.hp.com>
Subject: Re: HTML+ has no <!-- comments? -->
To: bert@let.rug.nl, m.koster@nexor.co.uk
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 93 15:47:51 GMT
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Mailer: Elm [revision: 66.36.1.1]

Bert Bos writes:

> The old HTML specification allows comments in documents, bracketed by
> <!-- and -->, but I couldn't find it in the HTML+ draft. Since HTML+
> is an SGML application, one would assume that comments are supported,
> but I think it should be mentioned explicitly.

Thanks for the tip!

You can use "<!--" around other tags and the first "-->" sequence will
terminate the comment, i.e. you can't nest comments, just like c :-)

Dave