153415 - problem with double dash/minus inside HTML comment

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Description

[Laurent Bonnaud]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020610
Debian/1.2.5-1
BuildID:    20020610

A HTML comment (<-- ...  -->) containing a double dash/minus 
(--) causes the rest of the document to be interpreted 
as a comment.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Load http://irancy.lis.inpg.fr/~bonnaud/foo.html
in the browser.

Actual Results:  "text1 text3"
is displayed.

In the HTML source view, "text2" is colorized as a comment.


Expected Results:  "text1 text2 text3"
should be displayed.


If I remove the XHTML DocType, the bug goes away.

Comment 1

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

See <URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.2.4>. This is 
correct.

INVALID.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Verified. The doctype triggers our "standards" mode in which we actually
implement correct comment parsing...

Comment 3

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

*** Bug 212842 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***