Re: Tidy converts "--" in comments...
Dennis Kowallek <[email protected]> Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:59:49 -0500
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On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:20:42 +0100, Bjoern Hoehrmann <[email protected]> wrote: >>I am running tidy.exe for windows dated 22 March 2008. >> >>I have "fix-bad-comments: no" in the cfg file. But tidy converts "--" in >>comments to "-=". >> >>I would like tidy to leave these alone. What am I doing wrong? > >In XHTML documents, comments are not allowed to contain "--". In HTML >documents, the situation is essentially the same, but for slightly >different reasons than in XHTML. I don't think there is an option for >Tidy to leave this error in the document. Thanks for the reply. The reason I asked is that these comments actually contain valid HTML that I may wish to uncomment in the future. I would prefer that tidy did not muck with this. I can work around it... -- Dennis