• From: MURATA Makoto <murata@a...>
• To: xml-dev@i...
• Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 01:06:44 +0900

Rob Cameron wrote:
> 
> If, as I assume, the answer is that only the double hyphen case
> is a concern, then the grammar needs to be changed.
> 
>    Comment ::= '<!--' (Char* - (Char* '--' Char*)) '-->'
> 

This is semantically identical to the current rule:

 Comment ::= '<!--' ((Char - '-') | ('-' (Char - '-')))* '-->'

I agree with you in that your proposal is clearer and more readable.  
In fact, I did the same proposal prior the XML PR, but it was not 
accepted.  Probably, I should try again in the next version of the 
XML specification.

Makoto
 
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