• From: David Carlisle <d.p.carlisle@g...>
• To: Roger L Costello <costello@m...>
• Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 20:32:18 +0000

On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 at 20:15, David Carlisle <d.p.carlisle@g...> wrote:
>

> In HTML then it's ... more complicated.
>
> David

For HTML have a look at
https://www.software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?saved=8935


<x z=a"<b>">  < </z>
<<<x
<b></b>
<!-- <b></b> -->
<xmp>
<b>
</xmp>


Here, < starts a start tag if it is followed by x, all the others do not.

• References:
  • A question for parsing experts: How to recognize that '<' denotes thebeginning of a start tag?
    • From: Roger L Costello <costello@m...>
  • Re: A question for parsing experts: How to recognize that'<' denotes the beginning of a start tag?
    • From: David Carlisle <d.p.carlisle@g...>