正确解析html注释

Question

Is there a good reference on how to parse html comments robustly especially where the html contains javascript which could break the comment

for example:

         <!--
         <script type="text/javascript">
         for( var i = 10; i > 0; i-- ) {
                      if( myar[i].status > 3 ) {
                                   ntlp++;
                      }
         }
         </script>
         -->

the two minus's and the greater than 3 in the script could be considered a concatenation that is interpreted as '-->' ( if you follow the html/sgml spec correctly ).

Anyway, is there a list of rules/gotchas to process all this ? In C would be preferable, otherwise pseudo-code is great too.

thanks

Ashod

Answer 1

If you meet <!-- in the code, everything further is a comment until --> . What other rules are needed?