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Subject:Re: Searching archives
From:Mike S
Date:Mon, 1 Aug 2011 17:20:30 -0400

At 03:12 PM 8/1/2011, Harry Hoffman wrote...
>the start of the comment tag is wrong:
>
>It's:
><!---
>
>when it should be
><!--
>
>(two dashes instead of three)
>
>Can the admins fix this?

It's not broken, that's a perfectly valid construct. The third "-" is
just the first character in the comment text. But, that doesn't change
the fact that the closing tag is wrong.

The formal definition of a comment is "A comment declaration starts
with <!, followed by zero or more comments, followed by >. A comment
starts and ends with "--", and does not contain any occurrence of
"--"."