Re: XML::Parser bug in comment xml code?

"Christopher R. Maden" <[email protected]> Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:30:11 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.xml
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On 11/11/2011 10:26 AM, Todd Rinaldo wrote:
> My question to the list is quite simply: Is this well formed XML?
> 
> <!--<cmdline><![CDATA[--]]></cmdline>-->

No, it is not.  The only thing not allowed in comments is a
double-hyphen — and that’s exactly what you have.  Note that none of the
markup, including the CDATA marked section, is parsed within a comment,
so the double hyphen isn’t protected in any way from making the comment
invalid.

~Chris
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