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- I was wrong: <!-- comment foo --> _is_ recognized in the
- instance, or so the standard and sgmls say.
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- I'm trying to put together a lex style specification of
- the lexical elements of HTML. It will almost certainly
- conflict with current usage.
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- But I think the reason current usage is broken is that
- the SGML standard is so obtuse.
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- I believe if I write up a lex specification of exactly
- what characters mean what and when, and it's only a
- couple pages of lex code, the folks will implement
- it faithfully.
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- As is is now, everybody just writes their own ad-hoc
- finite state machine. That's too error prone.
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- Dan
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