[XML-SIG] comments and -- in SAX

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

David Niergarth writes:
 > SP/nsgmls is even happy to swallow this bit as SGML without complaining:
 > 
 >     <top><!-- <!-- --> -- -- --></top>

This follows the pairs rule I discussed perfectly:

<!-- <!-- --> -- -- -->
  11   11 22  22 33 33

There is no nested markup inside the comment "content", so the
embedded <! and > are just more characters there, with no special
meaning.

  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fdrake at acm.org>
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