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Bug 15634 - I think the last sentence should be "If the comment was started by the end of the file (EOF) or (>), the token is empty."
Summary: I think the last sentence should be "If the comment was started by the end of...
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-01-20 04:46 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-05-16 01:46 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-01-20 04:46:38 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/tokenization.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#bogus-comment-state
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#bogus-comment-state

Comment:
I think the last sentence should be "If the comment was started by the end of
the file (EOF) or (>), the token is empty."

Posted from: 220.181.151.15 by masa.sec@gmail.com
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.106 Safari/535.2
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-05-15 23:18:30 UTC 
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
   http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html

Status: Partially Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Went with something slightly different but close to what you suggest.

If you would like to be acknowledged in the spec, please e-mail ian@hixie.ch to let me know under what name you should be acknowledged.
Comment 2 contributor 2012-05-15 23:19:03 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r7104.
Check-in comment: clarify a parenthetical
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=7103&to=7104