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authorJohn MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>2015-01-03 18:28:03 -0800
committerJohn MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>2015-01-03 18:28:03 -0800
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parent7817cd7edd94b80e3d851189ad1290661e109c7c (diff)
spec: use HTML5 spec's rule for HTML comments.
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@@ -6743,9 +6743,10 @@ A [closing tag](@closing-tag) consists of the
string `</`, a [tag name](#tag-name), optional
[whitespace](#whitespace), and the character `>`.
-An [HTML comment](@html-comment) consists of the
-string `<!--`, a string of characters not including the string `--`, and
-the string `-->`.
+An [HTML comment](@html-comment) consists of `<!--` + *text* + `-->`,
+where *text* does not start with `>` or `->`, does not end with `-`,
+and does not contain `--`. (See the
+[HTML5 spec](http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/syntax.html#comments).)
A [processing instruction](@processing-instruction)
consists of the string `<?`, a string