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Re: lynx-dev Bug: out commented script
From: |
David Woolley |
Subject: |
Re: lynx-dev Bug: out commented script |
Date: |
Wed, 13 May 1998 08:18:49 +0100 (BST) |
>
> Lynx will suppress the display of text in an HTML document between
> either <comment> and </comment>, or <!-- and -->.
^^^^^^^^^^
That's an oversimplification which fails to hold for a very large number
of web pages when Lynx is in correct comment mode. I'm not sure about
the exact requirements on <!, but, in such a null SGML directive, and
possibly rather more generally in SGML tags -- turns on comments and --
turns off comments, so, for example:
<!----
if a > b then c;
---->
is just completely broken (an invalid tag followed by:
b then c;
---->
with the final > unencoded.
The more common failure case is something like:
<!------>
but with 4n more -s.