[XML-SIG] comments and -- in SAX

[Mike Miller]

Interesting behavior. Thanks for the information. I'm glad I
checked with all of you before filing a bug or "fixing" it :-)

 - Mike Miller
   mikem@ichips.intel.com


>David Niergarth writes:
> > SP/nsgmls is even happy to swallow this bit as SGML without complaining:
> > 
> >     <top><!-- <!-- --> -- -- --></top>
>
>This follows the pairs rule I discussed perfectly:
>
><!-- <!-- --> -- -- -->
>  11   11 22  22 33 33
>
>There is no nested markup inside the comment "content", so the
>embedded <! and > are just more characters there, with no special
>meaning.
>
>  -Fred
>
>-- 
>Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fdrake at acm.org>
>PythonLabs at Zope Corporation
>
>
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