Closed
Bug 170949
Opened 22 years ago
Closed 22 years ago
Parser fails to read certain comment string
Categories
(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)
Tracking
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VERIFIED
DUPLICATE
of bug 101600
People
(Reporter: jo.sender, Assigned: harishd)
References
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Details
Mozilla 1.1(Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826). and
Netscape 7.0 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win-NT; de-DE; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020826)
both fail to interpret correctly following pages:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//DE">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Parser Test</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<!-- -------------- test -->
<BODY>
SIC<BR>
</BODY>
</HTML>
or
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//DE">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Parser Test</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<!-- test -- -->
<BODY>
SIC<BR>
</BODY>
</HTML>
The malefunctioning is caused by the comment string in above code. Comment end
is not recognized correctly.
There are lots of other "-" combinations that cause the same error.
Above URL shows the page where error was first seen. (Mathematical fomulary; german)
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Comment 1•22 years ago
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Is this a valid DOCTYPE?
I thought only "... Final//EN" exists?
Everything works fine when I change "Final//DE" to "Final//EN".
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Comment 2•22 years ago
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dupe of bug 101600?
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Comment 3•22 years ago
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Duplicate of bug 106100 is probably the best resolution. In strict
mode, we follow the CORRECT HTML parsing specification, where <! and
> represent the beginning and end of a markup declaration, and -- is
the comment delimiter: <!-- this is in a comment -- this is in a
markup declaration but not in a comment -- this is in a comment
again -->
Quirks mode uses "<!--" and "-->" as comment delimiters, but you
should NOT use the string "--" within a comment.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 101600 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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