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Latest comment: 16 years ago by Tim Starling in topic nested HTML comments

nested HTML comments

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Here is how the current parser handles nested HTML comments:

code becomes expected per SGML per XML
<<!---->!----> <!----> <!----> <!---->
<!<!---->----> <!----> <!----> <!---->
<!-<!---->---> <!----> <!----> <!---->
<!--<!---->--> --> --> invalid
<!---<!---->-> -> -> unterminated comment invalid
<!----<!---->> > > invalid invalid

As of today, the three upper strings where the opening comment token is broken become blank. --Yecril71pl 16:08, 11 September 2008 (UTC)Reply

This is expected. Preprocessing according to this spec converts <<!---->!----> to <!---->. You can check this using Special:ExpandTemplates. Then, following preprocessing, Sanitizer::removeHTMLtags() removes the comments, producing blank output. The behaviour of Sanitizer::removeHTMLtags() is not included in this spec. -- Tim Starling 07:49, 12 September 2008 (UTC)Reply