[Adium-devl] O'Reilly XML blog article: Parsing XML… backwards?

[Augie Fackler]

On Mar 16, 2007, at 7:17 AM, Colin Barrett wrote:

> On Mar 14, 2007, at 12:09 PM, Peter Hosey wrote:
>
>> On Mar 14, 2007, at 00:37:49, Colin Barrett wrote:
>>> "</hello-->" is actually pretty easily solved. Don't generate the
>>> "end of comment" until you hit a space or <!--.
>>
>> Bad solution. <!--hello--> is a legal comment that must be treated
>> as such.
>
> Right. Which is why you delay the firing of the events.
>
> "-->" encountered. Possibly ambiguous. Parser reads more.
> "hello" encountered. Still not sure what this is...
> "<!--" encountered. Ah, we know it's a comment. Fire off the events
> for a comment.
>
> Or, if it's actually a retardedly named element:
>
> "-->" encountered. Possibly ambiguous. Parser reads more.
> "hello" encountered. Still not sure what this is...
> "<" encountered. Ah, we know it's a retardedly named element. Fire off
> the events for an element, hunt down the author of the document, and
> shoot them in the fae.

So < is not legal in comments? I thought it was, and in that case  
this comment borks you:
<!-- < hello -->

Augie

>
> -Colin
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