Re: [xsl] "--" question

[Mike Brown <mike@xxxxxxxx>]

bix xslt wrote:
> >From: david_n_bertoni@xxxxxxxxxx
> > > Maybe I'm missing the idea here, but from the viewpoint that this >The 
> >string '--' cannot appear in a comment.  Otherwise, the document will
> >not be well-formed:
> 
> Yes but what is the 'REASONING' as to why this was chosen to be the case.

XML, like HTML, is a restricted subset of SGML.
I am guessing that in SGML a bare "--" can be considered markup.

Mike

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